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...Housing. Ariel Sharon has an apparent mandate to treat zoning as the conduct of war by other means. He is busily creating "new facts," in the form of Jewish settlements, on the West Bank. Saddam too is in the new-facts business with his systematic obliteration of Kuwaiti nationhood...
...last month by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council that requires approval by all the Cambodian "parties" before it can go into effect. The main item on the Jakarta agenda was the plan's call for creation of a Supreme National Council intended to symbolize Cambodian nationhood during a long transition to peace...
What next? The entire point of the Meech Lake accord was to bring Quebec into the reformed 1982 constitution the province had refused to sign. Another goal was to short-circuit Quebec's up-and-down aspirations to break away from confederation in favor of separate nationhood. To those ends, Mulroney and Bourassa had supported the "distinct society" clause as the means to preserve Quebec's French language and culture, a deep concern among the province's 6.5 million residents. Seven other provincial premiers agreed, with varying degrees of reluctance...
...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, "it is time for us to have our own country, our own constitution...
...still larger number of Congressmen say they support any nation's right to self-determination. Their lofty concern apparently does not extend to Quebec, Slovakia, Palestine or other areas where minorities are seeking nationhood, perhaps because U.S. voter rolls do not include large numbers of French- Canadians, Slovaks or Palestinians. Though Lithuanian Americans have been highly vocal, they are small in number and there is no organized Lithuanian lobby in the U.S. But millions of Americans of East European ancestry nurse a long-standing and understandable grudge against Moscow...