Word: provinciale
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When government and rebel representatives convened for peace talks in El Salvador's provincial town of La Palma six weeks ago, the mood was festive as thousands of expectant Salvadorans celebrated under the protection of smiling Boy Scouts. But the first meeting produced mainly promises to meet again, so...
Sovereignty for Quebec was the rallying cry that helped carry Premier René Levesque and his Parti Québécois to power eight years ago. When Levesque declared last week that the goal of independence had to give way to bread-and-butter issues, he split his party...
Levesque felt he was adapting to reality: voters rejected separatism in a 1980 referendum, and polls show that only a small minority favor it now. Faced with sagging popularity, 12.9% unemployment and one of the highest tax rates in Canada, he wanted to prepare for the provincial elections that must...
The architect Alvar Aalto, bless him, was always slightly out of it. He never lingered at the hothouse of Germany's Bauhaus; instead he spent the '20s in provincial Finland, designing for towns. His buildings are modern all right, sleek and sensible and just a bit Martian, but...
Nazism was political tragedy that moved at the tempo of provincial farce, and that is how Wajda plays Stani's interrogation by SS Lieut. Mayer (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and his adjutant Schulze (Ralf Wolter). These "good Germans" find it almost impossible to "follow orders." They debate Stani's...