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Quebec Nationalism. Trudeau proclaims that the major issue is "the integrity of Canada"-meaning a continued place in the Confederation for Quebec, where the separatist Parti Québecois won 23.06% of the vote in provincial elections two years ago (but decisively lost two by-elections earlier this month). Trudeau has responded to Quebec nationalism by trying to assure French-Canadians of a larger role in Canada and particularly in government -which has cost him votes among English-Canadians. They have complained about French signs on post offices, and the use of their taxes to alleviate unemployment in Quebec, which...
Based primarily on Armor's evaluation of Boston's voluntary METCO busing program, the study concludes that busing programs have had little effect on academic achievement by blacks, have not increased black students' educational or occupational ambition, have not increased blacks' self esteem and have encouraged separatist ideologies...
Such schools smack of resegregation to Berkeleyites who have fought for integration, and in the next few months the Health, Education and Welfare Department's Office for Civil Rights is expected to tell Berkeley formally what officials have been suggesting for months: namely, that the separatist schools may be violating federal policy. In answer, Coordinator Larry Wells, who is black, argues that voluntary separation is far different from forced segregation, and that it may well be transitional. "Our concern is to help kids compete in an integrated society," he says, "but we want them to compete on a basis...
...School in Gary, Ind., a kaleidoscope swirled and shifted: elegant pantsuits vied with flowing African dresses. Brightly colored, long-collared shirts from Harlem's streets brushed past stetsons and string ties from Texas. The careful tailoring of pin-stripe suits contrasted with the bulky military garb of the separatist army of the Republic of New Africa. The politics of the assembled blacks-3,009 delegates to the first national political convention of blacks in the U.S.-were as wildly varied as their attire...
...meaning that they were meddling in political affairs. As the army's new chief of staff, Bhutto named none other than Lieut. General Tikka Khan, the man who supervised last year's brutal repression in East Pakistan, and is also known for his role in crushing a separatist movement in Baluchistan ten years...