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Third World. Mitterrand is anxious to increase aid and trade with developing countries, and seems likely to strengthen French support for national liberation movements. He is strongly opposed to dealing with any kind of junta or authoritarian regime, no matter how pro-Western, and has sharply criticized U.S. involvement in El Salvador...
...city council hearing on legislation that would strengthen restriction on condominium conversion drew 250 people, all but a few angry with the plan, to City Hall Wednesday night...
...Stratton's recent discovery of hundreds of memoirs from the women who settled the western wilderness against great odds in the mid-19th century has unveiled a female frontier population which seemed to strengthen and thrive and gain color from the prairie sun and wind. These women, who trailed west after their husbands, unwillingly at first, soon burst out in lively appreciation of and identification with the frontier landscape. Carrie Stearns Smith, one pioneer woman, recollects the liberating power of the prairie as it accosted her constricted New England sensibility...
...right-to-life activists claim that they are working to strengthen the family. Does a 14-year-old child on welfare with an unwanted offspring constitute the kind of family they have in mind...
...vesque's victory could not have come at a worse time for Trudeau. His controversial constitutional reform package, initiated after the Quebec referendum to strengthen Canada's federal government, has been tied up for six months Ottawa's Parliament. Six of the nation's ten provinces have challenged Trudeau's bill in provincial courts on the grounds that it would illegally curtail the traditional rights of the provincial governments. Moreover, Trudeau's efforts to bring provincial energy resources under greater federal control have sparked bitter separatist demonstrations in the oil-and gas-rich western provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and British...