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Early in the Carter Administration, a flare-up of Quebec separatism led a U.S. official to guess that the big divorce would occur in 1990. He predicted that Pierre Elliott Trudeau, still vigorous at 70, would come out of semiretirement and run for the U.S. Congress. There were chuckles at the joke, but no joy at the prospect of Canada's cracking...
...contretemps with Jews threatened to flare anew after a televised "town meeting" presided over by Nightline's Ted Koppel. Mandela had kind words again for Arafat, Castro and even Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. They "support our struggle to the hilt," was his explanation. When asked about the human-rights shortcomings of Libya and Cuba, Mandela retorted that the A.N.C. had "no time to be looking to the internal affairs of other countries...
...issue has galvanized such intensive student protest. No issue has caused tempers to flare so high. And on no issue has Bok's distinctive ability to weather controversy been more apparent than in his handling of the divestment campaign...
...convention. The city has pledged to defray a larger amount of convention costs ($22 million) than its two rivals, Cleveland ($15 million) and New Orleans ($13 million), and its Democratic fund raisers have promised to help fill the coffers of the nominee. But Gotham's recent racial flare-ups have given pause even to some of the city's top Democrats. "Why do we need this?" asks one party...
After sustaining heavy casualties, the two warring departments finally agreed to an uneasy cease-fire when they realized the flare-up might drive impressionable first-years into a humanities field or--worse yet--chemistry...