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Federalism is the most boring word in the American political lexicon. Around the world, however, it's a fightin' word. Some countries will break, some blood will flow over it. From Kashmir to Quebec, the world is seething with secessionists who have had enough of the federations to which history and colonial masters have assigned them. They want...
Eritreans want to be free of Ethiopians. Kashmiris want to be rid of Indians. Even in boring, comfortable old Canada, Quebec is poised to walk. Of course, the problem is most acute in the Soviet Union, where first the Baltics, then Russia, then the Ukraine and a host of other republics have been voting themselves one version or another of independence. Even Uzbekistan -- Uzbekistan! -- demands its freedom...
Every night up to 3,000 angry residents of Chateauguay, Quebec, gathered outside the barricade that Mohawk Indians raised across the approach to the Mercier Bridge, a major artery into Montreal. Rowdies grappled with police and burned effigies of Mohawks hanging from a lamppost. Since a policeman was killed two weeks ago during an assault on another Mohawk blockage at Oka, 19 miles to the west, that town and Chateauguay have become scenes of an edgy standoff over the volatile issue of Indian land rights. The Indians have been protesting plans to expand a golf course into a forest that...
Nearly 200 defiant Mohawks, some wearing war paint, fought a brief but furious gun battle with 100 armed Quebec police officers that resulted in one police death last week near the village of Oka, 18 miles west of Montreal...
...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...