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...Quebec Premier René Lévesque...
...political time-bomb is ticking away north of the U.S. border. What it threatens is the unity and perhaps even the survival of Canada. The bomb comes in the form of a threat by the separatist government of Quebec to seek independence for the country's largest province. Next week, at an extraordinary three-day meeting, Canada's national and provincial leaders will gather in Ottawa to discuss means of righting the country's grave economic problems, which include a galloping 8.5% unemployment and 9.5% inflation. But underlying the talks will be a nervous awareness that Canada's 111-year...
...that Canadians suddenly discovered part of their country might soon be missing. That day Quebec's predominantly French-speaking voters gave 41% of their ballots, enough to form a majority government in the province, to the left-of-center Parti Québécois, which only ten years ago was a splinter group on the fringe of provincial politics. Independence for Quebec is the party's main goal?indeed, its raison d'être. Some time next year the government is expected to hold a province-wide referendum. How the issue will be worded is uncertain, but in essence the voters...
...Government$246,914,156 IBM $74,109,498 Ford $55,562,975 Mobil $53,036,556 Exxon $41,937,361 Quebec Hydro-Electric $31,354,629 G.M. $30,614,761 Eastman Kodak $26,828,948 Continental Oil $22,064,320 General Reinsurance Group $21,790,981 MAPCO $21,218,851 Getty $20,219,9033 Atlantic Richfield $17,570,839 Standard Oil of California $17,074,654 St. Regis Paper $15,353,397 General Electric $15,187,405 Sears, Roebuck $14,924,096 Beneficial $13,822,884 Caterpillar Tractor $13,741,103 Province of Ontario $12,335,910 Dow Chemical...
...Burkitt followed with a recommendation for dwellers in developed countries to increase their fiber consumption toward the almost 1 oz. per day consumed by Africans he studied. Some eminent nutritionists have protested that the Britons' claims were gross exaggerations. At the fifth Western Hemisphere Nutrition Congress in Quebec last month, one authority summed up current biochemical knowledge about fiber, and another explored its medical aspects in the hope of ending some of the fracas...