Word: rule
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...footsteps of Explorer Samuel de Champlain; they still make up nearly one-third of the population and live chiefly in Quebec. British merchants, traders and settlers followed after Quebec was captured by the British in 1759, their numbers enhanced after 1776 by immigrant American colonials who preferred British rule to U.S. independence. Today 40% of all Canadians are Anglo-Saxons. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, millions more came: Germans and Swedes to fish and till the prairies; Ukrainians, now the fourth largest group in Canada, to found towns with unlikely New World names like Dnieper...
...American Constitution reserved to the states all rights not specifically granted to the Federal Government; yet the reality of union created strong central rule. In Canada, the reverse was the case: the Constitution reserved to the Federal Government all powers not specifically granted to the provinces; yet the reality of disunity created a weak central regime from the start. The most threatening aspect of this disunity was the conflict between French-and English-speaking Canadians. In 1838 Lord Durham came from London following a series of minor rebellions and reported back: "I expected to find a conflict between a government...
...could take months to squeeze through an unruly National Assembly, giving the opposition a continuous field day. Last week Premier Georges Pompidou told a hand-picked group of Deputies that the Assembly will be asked to approve government-by-decree for the next six months. Seeking extraordinary powers to rule temporarily by decree has long been a favorite method of French governments for stuffing unpopular measures down parliamentary throats, and De Gaulle himself has used it no less than seven times since he took power...
...polling booths two months ago. An ominous sign came by week's end when one of the general's faithful lieutenants, hulking Edgar Pisani, 48, Minister of Public Works and Housing and a Cabinet member since 1961, resigned in protest against the government's attempt to rule by decree. He was the first French Cabinet member in five years to quit...
Progress & Problems. Under the firm rule of Park's Democratic Republican Party, Korea is emerging from its long years of isolation (TIME, March 10). Park has sent 46,000 troops to Viet Nam, promoted regional economic cooperation among the non-Communist Asian Pacific nations and normalized relations with Japan-a move that has proved worth $800 million in grants and credits. Park's five-year development plan has sharply expanded foreign and domestic investment and, for the first time, started Korea on the road toward self-sufficiency. In the past five years, more than 3,600 new factories...