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Angry protesters demanded that the ailing former Premier move from both a comfortable village residence and a Protestant parsonage outside Berlin. He's now recovering from an operation for kidney cancer at a Soviet sanatorium near Potsdam...
...Canada the outcome may be, As Quebec goes, so goes the confederation. British Columbia's premier, William Vander Zalm, has already said his province will "seek a different type of confederation," modeled on what Quebec achieves. "We ought to be looking at what it is that might be negotiated for Quebec," he says, "and we should be negotiating on a parallel stream." Premier Grant Devine of Saskatchewan said last week his province too will need "more independence...
Ontario, the most populous and richest province, which carries on $25.5 billion in trade annually with Quebec, is overtly putting economics first. Premier David Peterson quickly visited Bourassa last week to reassure all Canadians "that we will work together" to ensure that it will be "business as usual...
...Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa talked with TIME senior editor George Russell and Ottawa bureau chief James Graff in Bourassa's 17th-floor offices in Montreal's Quebec Hydro building. Excerpts...
...Meech Lake accord is dead and Quebec's status uncertain. Now the country must rethink what form of government will take the 123-year-old confederation into the next century. -- An interview with Quebec's Premier Robert Bourassa. -- Can the outpouring of international relief assistance to earthquake victims bring the maverick Iran back into the orbit of nations...