Word: separatist
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...from last year, when merrymaking funds were slashed abruptly by an austerity-minded government. This time the question of national unity overrode any urge for thrift. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was determined to show that Canadians want to stick together as a nation despite the election victory of the separatist Parti Québécois last November in Quebec, his country's largest province. Said Trudeau in his Dominion Day address: "The sort of bickering which has too often been characteristic of Canadian life is giving way to a renewed willingness to open our hearts and minds...
...repression spawned the ETA (Euz-kadi ta Azkatusuna?Basque Homeland and Liberty) a separatist resistance organization, which among other acts of violence killed Franco's first Premier, Adm>al Luis Carrerro Blanco...
...Prime Minister's perkiness may have another cause: renewed political support at home. Public enthusiasm for his Liberal government, at a low ebb only a year ago, has been rising steadily since the election last November of a separatist government in the largely French-speaking province of Quebec. Last week, in a series of federal by-elections viewed as a significant sounding of electoral feeling toward the Liberals, Trudeau's party hung on handily to four vacated parliamentary seats and gained another from the opposition Progressive Conservatives...
According to Peter Newman, the editor of Maclean's magazine, a recent demographic study of Quebec voters showed that, by the time of the next election, 42 per cent of Quebec's voters would be between the ages of 18 and 35, if "that age group is almost entirely separatist," as Newman says, Canadian federalists are in trouble...
...Canadian hosts, with guests and hosts establishing strong friendships. The musical performances of the tour became incidental as the students formed deep personal attachments to one another. Many tears were shed when the time came for good-byes. It is my opinion that you would not find a single separatist among either of those groups...