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...United Nations should use "all instruments available" to make peace in Bosnia, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said last night in comments after a speech at the Kennedy School of Government...
Resentment of the political establishment weighed heavily too. Brian Mulroney, already the most unpopular Prime Minister in the history of Canadian polling, was a big loser. According to one survey, his campaigning for the accord created twice as many no votes as yesses. Aboriginal peoples -- Indians and Inuit (Eskimos) -- also suffered badly. The rejected constitution would have granted them greatly increased self-government...
...decades Canadians have been worried that the French-speaking province of Quebec would secede and the country would fall apart. Last week Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and 10 provincial premiers finalized an agreement aimed at keeping the 125-year-old confederation intact. They agreed to constitutional reforms that would provide greater autonomy for Quebec, more political clout for the country's less populous regions and self-government for aboriginal Canadians...
Just hours after the agreement was reached, President Bush strode into the White House Rose Garden to applaud the pact as "the beginning of a new era." Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari went on early-morning television to praise the deal, while Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney called it "an important step forward." Elsewhere the reception was chillier. In Japan, angry trade and auto-industry officials charged that the local-content requirement would force Japanese manufacturers to redesign cars sold in North America and jack up prices...
AMERICANS TALKED ABOUT IT in coffee shops and check-out lines and elevators. In the Rose Garden of the White House, George Bush stood with Brian Mulroney, trying to hold a press conference about matters of state. The hounds of the press frisked and barked in excitement until their intermingled questions sounded something like Murf! Murf! Murf...