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Quebec is not Canada's West Bank, nor is it Canada's Biafra, as some American analysts have suggested. And the U.S. would not prove an effective mediator were the tension between the independentistes and the federalists to heighten, as one U.S. daily editorialized. The 83-per-cent turnout in last week's referendum provides ample proof that Quebeckers care about their province's destiny. Whether that fate lies in what Levesque terms Quebec's "rendezvous with history" or whether the path followed will be Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's "renewed federalism" remains foggy...
This tactic, too, has backfired. Egypt ended its subsidies of key staples in 1977 under IMF orders. Within days riots erupted. Desperate people took to the streets and forced the government to turn back the moves. In Peru, an IMF-ordered 20-per-cent hike in gasoline costs on January 3, 1979, led to a general strike and an attendant repressive response. Hundreds were arrested for leading the strike; seven magazines were closed down; police were ordered to shoot troublemakers on sight; the Constitution was suspended...
Local 26, the union representing the dining hall workers, asked for a three-year contract with successive 10-, 9- and 8-per-cent increases retroactive to April 1. The union had originally sought a 20-per-cent across-the-board raise...
State police uniform crime report statistics showed an 11.9-per-cent increase in serious crimes in Cambridge in 1975. A total of 8130 crimes were reported in the city...
Cohen's negotiators offered a 4-per-cent retroactive raise for 1980 and a 3-per-cent increase for 1981. The union, which has represented the employees since last December, made no specific wage raise demand...