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...supported some form or other of separation from the rest of Canada. The stage was set for a demonstration of that unhappy feeling as the province prepared for its "national" holiday, St. Jean Baptiste Day, on June 24. It augured to be one of the most fervent expressions of nationalist sentiment that Quebec had seen for decades. Such passions may not fade easily. Last week it was difficult to see through the shattered accord how Canada might put the pieces back together again...
...great gain for Quebec," said Bourassa after the negotiations, "and a great gain for Canada." Not to mention a political necessity for Bourassa. The constitutional imbroglio revived the cause of Quebec separatism, which the Meech Lake accord had been intended to defuse. With nationalist sentiment growing, the premier could not show the slightest sign of buckling under pressure from his fellow premiers. Waiting for Bourassa to make a slip was Jacques Parizeau, leader of the opposition Parti Quebecois, the party that endorses the concept of Quebec nationhood. "Faced with what we consider wrong and profoundly humiliating," says Parizeau...
...better-educated people will inevitably demand more freedom of expression. Nor do they foresee the imminent collapse of the Communist Party, as happened in Eastern Europe. Whereas the regimes in Eastern Europe were imposed by the Soviet Union, rule by the Chinese Communist Party was the product of a nationalist revolution. Moreover, China is still a poor, developing country whose huge, largely peasant population has had little exposure to the concept of democracy. The average Chinese tends to be more protective of his recently acquired right to grow cash crops than of the human rights for which students demonstrated last...
...only the most obvious manifestation of the problem and by no means the most alarming. The resolve of the leaders there is still tempered with restraint. That is not necessarily so in the southern republics. Speaking privately in Tbilisi two weeks ago, one of Georgia's most popular nationalist leaders denounced as "traitors and collaborationists" any of his countrymen who participate in Soviet-approved parliamentary elections this fall. Such epithets give off a distinct aroma of gunpowder...
...after years of no progress toward settling the Palestinian question, a more disturbing realization has set in. Says Hertzberg: "Now we are facing the fact that these Likud fellows -- Begin and Shamir and ((Ariel)) Sharon and their likes -- are not reasonable fellows who want the maximum deal, but nationalist ideologues who will pay great, incalculable prices to maintain ideological purity and a continuing war with the Palestinians...