Word: parizeau
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...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, "it is time for us to have our own country, our own constitution...
...give way to bread-and-butter issues, he split his party and possibly jeopardized his eight-seat majority in Quebec's provincial parliament. Five cabinet ministers resigned, two legislators bolted, and half a dozen others threatened to quit the party. The defectors included Finance Minister Jacques Parizeau and Social Affairs Minister Camille Laurin, an author of the law that imposed French as Quebec's only official language...
...held by spring 1986 by focusing on economics and getting along with the popular new federal government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. But at a convention in June, the Parti Québécois had voted to make independence its main campaign issue. Abandoning that cherished goal, Parizeau said last week, would be "sterile and humiliating...
...Victoria, B.C., Biologist Paul H. D. Parizeau, investigating "grey ash" found on car windshields, blamed Radiolaria. His argument: these single-celled animals live in countless billions in the sea. When they die, their silicic, spherical skeletons sink to the ocean floor, form a radiolarian ooze. An explosion such as the H-bomb would blow them skyward, heating them past 1,710° centigrade, at which temperature silica melts. But they would harden again at the lower temperatures of the atmosphere and, being feather light, would float on the wind across the Pacific -to strike windshields...