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Last month, the separatist Parti Québécois (PQ) government of Quebec launched 18 commissions to drum up public support for sovereignty. In what was to have been an explosive first month, the commissions have proven to be the latest flop in a series of failed attempts to kick-start nationalist passions. Only 38.5 percent of Quebecers in a recent survey indicated that they were "paying a lot or some attention" to the commissions. One source reported that in the midst of "many tough questions" on separation, the commissions produced "few clear answers." Support for sovereignty hovers...
Still, the PQ stumbles along, wasting taxpayers' money and the legislature's time by producing its travelling circuses and declarations of independence. The separatist machinery in Quebec deserves to be dismantled...
...your philosophy of action and consistent exercise of leadership abroad," Clinton told his enthusiastic audience. "And I am determined, notwithstanding all the crosscurrents in our country, that we shall preserve that commitment." But Clinton dodged what White House aides said would be a public statement opposing Canada's Quebec separatist movement. TIME White House correspondent James Carney, in Ottawa with the president, says Clinton feared offending the separatists -- one of whom is now an opposition leader in Canada's government -- even though "it's obviously in the U.S. interest to deal with one country...
...prepared and adopted the new constitution in 2 years," he said. "The political struggle in the streets has ended, and the separatist talk hasstopped...
...numerous Cambridge Rindge and Latin graduates with whom Ms. Clarke worked day and night, helping them to research colleges and fill out the applications. Do not be surprised to find that many of these students are not Black. Such actions would hardly be characteristic of a racial separatist...