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Elijah Harper, a Cree-Ojibway Indian and legislator in the province of Manitoba, became a hero to Canadian Indians and Inuit two years ago when he brought the machinery of national constitutional reform to a halt. His decisive no in the Manitoba legislative assembly not only doomed a complex pact designed to put the Canadian confederation on a new footing but also sent the country's political leadership back to the drawing board. Spurred in part by the Manitoban's stubborn stand, federal and provincial leaders agreed for the first time that a revised constitution must recognize native peoples' "inherent...
Topics of the morning session include computer-assisted surgery, vaccines to combat dental cavities and AIDS, new agents to halt tissue destruction and techniques to assess dental implants...
...door on Monday morning to read proudly of my team's accomplishments at the Ivy League Championships over the weekend. I flipped to the Sports Page and scoured the headlines: "Gridders Grind to Halt," "Effort Just Isn't Enough," "Stickwomen Hit Rock Bottom Against Green," "Restic Makes Adjustments in Offense," "Dance the Night Away...
...loss of Soviet aid, Cuban exile groups are rethinking their strategy and calling for more dialogue with the Castro regime to prevent a violent transition if communism collapses. Liberal Cuban Americans blame Mas for trying to upset that process. "The whole point of the Cuban Democracy Act was to halt the transformation of Cuba," argues Alicia Torres, executive director of the Cuban American Committee. "Mas' only hope is to create violence. Is that what the rest of the U.S. wants?" Mas counters that the act actually safeguards Cuba's future by requiring elections within six months and making sure Washington...
...dealership in Hialeah. Worried about the city's image, irate animal-rights activists, community leaders and politicians united to pass an anti-sacrifice ordinance in 1987. For animal-rights groups, it was a natural extension of long-established laws on animal cruelty or of more recent crusades to halt animal research...