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...country. The province's economic dynamism and cultural solidarity have given its politicians and businessmen a remarkable degree of self-confidence. Still, many participants in the debate do not believe a final split need occur. "When you come right down to it," says Alain Dubuc, an editor of the Montreal daily La Presse, "Quebeckers don't want to separate. What we need is a simplification of the relationship." Dubuc envisions a Canada of regions rather than provinces, held together in a loose structure similar to the proclaimed goal of the European Community...
...JESUS OF MONTREAL. An avant-garde theater troupe performs its own radical updating of the Passion play. Now, shouldn't a film with that story enrage a few conservative zealots? Alas, Denys Arcand's French-Canadian satire is so solemn that it is not worth patronizing -- or even picketing...
...ozone agreement, signed by 59 nations at a conference in London (about 30 other nations were observers), was a historic improvement on the already tough Montreal Protocol of 1987. That pact called for a reduction by the end of the century in worldwide production of ozone-depleting CFCs and halons, man-made chemicals that allow ever increasing amounts of dangerous ultraviolet light to reach the earth's surface. But since Montreal, a consensus had been growing that mere limitation was not enough. All the participating nations agreed that both types of chemicals should be phased out almost entirely by century...
...propellants in spray cans. The fund, proposed long before the London meeting, had been a major sticking point until a few weeks ago, chiefly because the Bush Administration had declined to support it. Consequently, such populous developing nations as India and China continued to refuse to sign the Montreal Protocol. Bush finally reversed himself, under withering criticism from inside and outside the U.S., and India and China have now agreed to sign. They and other developing countries will have an extra ten years to phase out some of the chemicals...
Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa talked with TIME senior editor George Russell and Ottawa bureau chief James Graff in Bourassa's 17th-floor offices in Montreal's Quebec Hydro building. Excerpts...