Word: premier
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...Parti Québécois wept, cheered and sang "Tomorrow belongs to us ..." as Péquiste Party Leader René Lévesque, 54, appeared to claim victory. In an extraordinary election that could affect Canada's future as a nation, Quebec voters had chosen as Premier a man whose party is committed to leading the 6 million citizens of the predominantly French-speaking province out of the 109-year-old confederation. Straining to contain his feelings, Lévesque issued a choked declaration: "We hope, in friendship with our fellow citizens in Canada, to arrive...
...election was a catastrophic defeat for lanky, Harvard-educated Liberal Premier Robert Bourassa. In 1973 his party won 102 of the 110 seats in Quebec's legislature and 55% of the total vote by campaigning singlemindedly against the threat of l'indépendance represented by Lévesque and the Parti Québécois. This time Lévesque and his followers took 41% of the vote and 69 legislature seats, including Bourassa's own riding in Montreal. The Liberals, with 34% of the vote, were reduced to a humiliating 28 seats, partly because...
Most Canadians could endorse at least the second part of that self-analysis by Quebec's Premier-elect René Lévesque, 54. Once a firebrand Cabinet minister in the federalist Liberal government of Quebec, he was even considered by some-in much earlier days -as a possible candidate for Prime Minister of Canada. Now the voluble, hyperactive Levesque says that anyone who does not believe his separatist Parti Quebecois is determined to seek national independence is "daydreaming...
...being eroded. As a result, along with a new series of drafts and arrests of student leaders in the summer of 1973, he decided to proceed with a political maneuver that would buy him time. He abolished the monarchy, made himself president of a republic, and installed a civilian premier who promised elections in 1974. It was an attempt to impose a Brazilian or Turkish style solution to the crisis, with the fascist junta actually retaining full power behind a facade of fake democratic procedures. It was, of course, again vocally rejected by democratic public opinion and political leaders...
...part of our Bicentennial observance, TIME asked leaders of nations round the world to address the American people through the pages of TIME on how they view the U.S. and what they hope-and expect-from the nation in the years ahead. This message from Premier Süleyman Demirel of Turkey is the eighth in the series...