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...political time-bomb is ticking away north of the U.S. border. What it threatens is the unity and perhaps even the survival of Canada. The bomb comes in the form of a threat by the separatist government of Quebec to seek independence for the country's largest province. Next week, at an extraordinary three-day meeting, Canada's national and provincial leaders will gather in Ottawa to discuss means of righting the country's grave economic problems, which include a galloping 8.5% unemployment and 9.5% inflation. But underlying the talks will be a nervous awareness that Canada's 111-year...
...plebiscite whether or not their province should take the first steps toward becoming a new, independent North American nation. If Quebec does eventually secede, Canada's already impoverished Atlantic Provinces (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island) will be perilously isolated from the rest of the country. Separatist pressures, moreover, could very well increase in the western provinces, which have long chafed against the central government's lack of concern for their interests. Canada, in short, could be torn apart...
...early '60s that resentment against Anglophone domination led to the first stirrings of radical separatist feelings, embodied by the tiny Quebec Liberation Front (F.L.Q.). Terrorist F.L.Q. members planted bombs in mailboxes outside homes in Montreal's affluent Anglophone suburb of Westmount. Separatism received a huge burst of publicity in 1967, when the late Charles de Gaulle gave his notorious "Vive le Québec libre!" speech at Montreal's city hall. Around the same time, portions of Quebec's 850,000-member union movement turned to Marxist ideology, launching widespread strikes and demonstrations. In 1969, when Montreal police and firemen went...
Since 1948 the Afrikaner government has pushed legislation through parliament classifying the population by race, banning marriage and I sex across the color line and imposing "pass" laws that rigidly control the movement of blacks. In all, some 300 pieces of separatist legislation form the edifice of apartheid today. Local prejudices simply reinforce the letter and spirit of the laws. A minority might endure such a system without protest, but South Africa's black majority did not. In 1960 came the bloody Sharpeville riot, in which 69 were killed as police fired on a black crowd demonstrating peaceably against...
...Euskadi ta Askatasuna, or Basque homeland and liberty). A separatist movement in the four Basque provinces of northern Spain. Generally Marxistoriented, ETA seeks total independence for the provinces (and links with Basque areas of France) and rejects government offers of regional autonomy. Estimated active membership: 60 to 120, with thousands of supporters in the northern provinces of Spain. Its archcrime: the 1973 bombing murder of Vice Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, then Franco's Premier...