Word: secessionism
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But in these windows and doorways hang T-shirts, most of them sporting self-deprecating slogans about Canada's relationship with the United States. Others are marked with a grinning frog--the mascot, a la Mickey Mouse, that symbolizes the Quebecois secession movement.
Boston Blacks Again Seek Secession
Although the precedent for secession has already been set by the Baltic states, the Ukraine's size makes its bid for independence important, according to Saroyan.
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev has vehemently opposed the Ukraine's secession and he said yesterday that the disintegration of the Soviet Union was "a catastrophe for all mankind."
The Ukraine is so powerful economically and politically and has so many people--it is the second most populous republic with 52 million people--its secession would severely cripple Gorbachev as well as his government. Gorbachev has campaigned hard against any republics seceding, saying Saturday that Ukrainian independence would be...