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...power between the provinces and the federal government in Ottawa. Western Canadians feel that their interests have too long been ignored or overlooked by Ottawa and want a larger say in the nation's affairs. Overriding everything, of course, is the issue of separatism in Quebec, and Premier Levesque's plan to hold a referendum on a new form of "sovereignty-association" between his province and the rest of Canada...
Some Canadians thought of it as their country's doomsday scenario. The election of an English-speaking government in Ottawa would be seen by Quebeckers as a hostile rejection. Whereupon Premier Rene Levesque (pronounced Leh-vek) would immediately call a provincial referendum on a separate status for Quebec. After his Parti Quebecois legions stumped the province insisting that Quebeckers now had no choice but to entrust their future to their own government, the voters would give Levesque his mandate to present Ottawa with an ultimatum...
...real question now is not whether Levesque will lose the referendum but when. The Premier, who made a campaign promise that the referendum would take place some time during his first term, has repeatedly delayed the vote; it will probably not be taken before next spring...
...negotiators on autonomy for the West Bank and Gaza began in the desert town of Beersheba, in Israel's Negev area. The opening discussions were slightly clouded by a last-minute dispute between Egypt and Israel over whether the two nations would open their borders immediately, as Israeli Premier Menachem Begin says Sadat promised earlier this spring, or at the end of nine months, as called for by the treaty. Nonetheless, Sadat and Begin were scheduled to open an air corridor between the two countries by flying in an Egyptian 707 from Tel Aviv to Cairo and back, without...
...army, in turn, brought in fire trucks to hose down the militants. Tensions eased only when Deputy Premier Yigael Yadin arrived at the scene and promised that the settlers' grievances would be thoroughly discussed at a Cabinet meeting...