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...Quebec Premier Ren?? Lévesque...
...resolution of these alarming possibilities rests in large part in the hands of two French-speaking Quebecois: Canada's aloof, intellectual Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 58, and passionate, populist Quebec Premier Ren?? Lévesque (pronounced...
...that the task is "to win the hearts and minds of Quebeckers to stay in confederation." Trudeau is keeping a large part of his counterstrategy against separatism under wraps. But among other things, his government intends to arm itself with the power to call its own referendum, in case Ren?? Lévesque unfairly biases the Quebec plebiscite question. The central government is also preparing proposals for constitutional change: for example, stronger provincial representation on Canada's Supreme Court and in other national institutions, and a bill of rights protecting French-and English-language rights. These would not only placate Western...
...less troubling is the belief that economic growth is worth any effort. Until recently, neither capitalist nor Communist seriously questioned the whirling-dervish doctrine that teaches, in Ren?? Dubos' words, "Produce more than you can consume so that you can produce more." This leads to ecological mismanagement. For example, says Barry Commoner: "Every day we produce 11,000 calories of food per capita in the U.S. We need only 2,500 calories." At the same time, while most of Latin America is suffering from protein deficiency, the U.S. is taking thousands of tons of protein-rich anchovies from the Humboldt...
...took a six-month leave of absence from his job to serve as his official chef de cabinet. On inauguration day, De Gaulle ceremoniously offered a seat in the presidential limousine to Pompidou, and the two rode side by side away from the Arc de Triomphe, leaving ex-President Ren?? Coty to walk...