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...that, among other things, the document did not adequately protect its distinct French linguistic and cultural heritage, which is threatened by immigration and a provincial birthrate that is below replacement level. In a bid to resolve the impasse, Mulroney assembled the ten provincial premiers in April 1987 at a retreat at Meech Lake, Quebec. The group cobbled together constitutional amendments that met Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa's five "minimal" demands for more provincial power. Chief among the concessions was an affirmation of Quebec's right to preserve and promote its status as a "distinct society...
Several years ago, Springier would have enthusiastically stood on Semen's and Chubb's side of the picket line. "I had been an uncritical supporter of Israel," he says, smiling as he remembers a retreat he planned in high school for a school youth group. "The retreat was in 1982, during the war in Lebanon, and I got propaganda from Israel's consulate. While I was planning the retreat, it was important for me to show the Israeli side of 'Oration Peace for Galilee.' I don't even think of it as a war; it was a necessary security measure...
...Israeli murdered in Jerusalem, and at least 800 wounded. But the sudden escalation proved that the uprising lives, despite both Israeli force and Arab infighting, making a mockery of a prediction three weeks ago by Major General Yitzhak Mordechai, commander in the West Bank, that the Palestinians were "in retreat...
...Gorbachevs are arriving in Washington on May 30, with the two presidents holding summit meetings over the following four days at the White House and Camp David, the presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland...
...vehicle for compromise. But the main stumbling block remains: what to do about the March 11 declaration of independence. Lithuanians are interpreting the proposed suspension to refer only to legislation passed after March 11, while Moscow reads it to include suspension of the declaration itself. The no-retreat camp still has the upper hand in Vilnius, but the artful Western nudge might help move both sides closer to talks...