Word: renee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take him to towns as old as civilization, to architectural monuments, archaeological sites and little-known museums, uncrowded beaches and country fairs, superlative fishing, golf, tennis, hiking, biking, train rides and other forms of exploration and conviviality that do not come with a $100-a-day hotel room. Says Rene Bardy, an official of the French tourist bureau: "What is asked of today's tourist is that he be more curious and clever than he used...
...Trudeau's home province of Quebec, the government of Premier Rene Levesque is determined to end the minority status of French-speaking Quebeckers in predominantly English-speaking Canada by achieving independence for the province. As a first step, the Levesque government is preparing to call a plebiscite as early as next fall, asking for a mandate to negotiate a vaguely defined formula of political sovereignty for Quebec and an economic association with the rest of Canada. A few years ago, Trudeau declared that "separatism is dead." Now he is trying to rouse attention to the threat of separatism...
Tourism and tuna fishing are two of the islands' main industries. "You don't need a Kalashnikov to shoot tuna," says a U.S. intelligence officer. One State Department theory is that the new President, F. Albert Rene, is simply equipping his nearly 400-man Seychelles Liberation Army. Apparently because the U.S. has curbed its arms sales, he turned to the Soviet Union. Rene now presumably would be protected against a countercoup by deposed President James R.M. Mancham, head of the conservative Seychelles Democratic Party. When Mancham was ousted while visiting Britain, he scoffed: "It is no big heroic deed...
After ten years in power, Trudeau also suffers from chronic overexposure. In 1976 his popularity soared, following the election of Separatist Premier Rene Levesque in predominantly French-speaking Quebec. Anglophone Canadians then felt that Trudeau, a bilingual Quebecois from Montreal, was uniquely qualified to fight the breakaway movement in the country's largest province (pop. 6 million). Since then, Levesque has cannily soft-pedaled his political line. As a result, the urgency of the separatist threat to Canada's 111-year-old confederation has worn off outside Quebec...
Drawing on such modern work as Rene Thom's mathematical catastrophe theory (to deal with discontinuous functions), as well as cybernetics and information theory, the authors almost produced a brilliant and illuminating work. Only their own assumptions held them back. It is difficult to be objective or fair when you alread "know" that our western rational consciousness is in some way "right," when you "know" that the individual is sacred and must not submit himself to anything larger, like the Godhead or transcendent oneness with the world, when you are committed to the material world of things and have consigned...