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...qu Chin, now a graduate student at the Harvard School of Education, emigrated from Hong Kong with her family when she was nine. She has worked in volunteer projects in Chinatown for over five years. "Language is the biggest barrier," she says. "Without English you can't solve the other problems." Four years ago she helped found an adult education program. "We started with two or three Saturday afternoon classes in English. Some of the students had been here 20 or 30 years and this was their first opportunity to learn the language." Weeknight classes were added, along with...
Though he has not yet irrevocably repudiated the leftists, Perón is inexorably edging to the right. As increasing violence brings the country ever closer to civil war, events are forcing him to choose. Just last week, Jorge V. Quíroga, a former judge assigned to political cases, was gunned down in central Buenos Aires by leftist guerrillas. Since Perón formally took office, 22 businessmen, foreign and Argentine, have been kidnaped, mainly by leftists; 18 people have been killed in political violence and more than twice as many have been wounded; several houses and a newspaper...
Since 1968, the Parti Québécois has been led by René Lévesque, 51, a brilliant journalist who left the Liberals because of their strong support of federalism. Although the péquistes enlisted an impressive array of French-Canadian intellectuals as assembly candidates, the momentum of the campaign gradually swung to the Liberals, whose slogan, Bourassa construit (Bourassa builds), was a not too veiled hint that Lévesque destroys...
Sigh of Relief. Separatism, warned Bourassa, would force Quebec to create a new currency, which would immediately lose value in relation to the Canadian dollar. This was the single most devastating attack against the Parti Québécois. The Liberals were also helped by their undeniably good economic record. In Bourassa's 3½ years as Premier, his government had created a vast social welfare program-including free medical and dental care-without raising taxes. New industries were blossoming, and unemployment had dropped from 10% to less than...
Outside Quebec, politicians, regardless of party affiliation, heaved a sigh of relief when returns indicated a resounding defeat for the Parti Québécois. Said a satisfied Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who heads the national Liberal Party: "Quebeckers prefer Canada to separatism...