NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, November 1, 1995
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Canadians begin healing wounds
Federal and separatist leaders evaluate vote
The Associated Press
MONTREAL — Chastened by a narrow victory against Quebec separatists, Canada's federal leaders yesterday began trying to put the divided nation back together.
The separatists pledged another breakaway attempt in mostly French-speaking Quebec.
They also fueled divisiveness by blaming the defeat on non-francophone immigrants. Police reported 40 arrests after supporters brawled. A homemade bomb was found in the federalist Liberal Party's offices.
There was little celebration in Ottawa, where Prime Minister Jean Christen met with his Cabinet to discuss the impact of Monday's independence referendum
The federalists' victory — 50.6 percent to 49.4 percent — kept Canada intact but sent the message that Quebeckers want major changes in the federal system.
"The No forces may have won the referendum, barely, but they clearly lost the broader battle," wrote Alain Dubuc in La Presse, a French-language Montreal newspaper.
Federal leaders did not understand the depth of Quebeckers' dissatisfaction, Dubuc wrote. "They were incapable of proposing a message of hope to them and giving their vote some meaning."
Quebec's separatist premier, Jacques Parizeau, caused a furor with his bitter non-concession speech Monday night in which he blamed big business and ethnic minorities for thwarting the will of the French nationalist majority.
"The sort of very negative petty politics that he displayed were rather disgusting," Deputy Prime Minister Sheila Copps said. "He was looking for someone to blame, and in his agenda, it's the ethnics, the non-whites."
Both Parizeau and Lucien Bouchard, the separatists' coleader, suggested that they would regroup for another attempt to gain independence for the province. They were encouraged by the vote, which improved from a 1980 referendum that the separatists lost 60 percent to 40 percent.
Any proposal can be subject to a referendum only once during the term of a provincial government, according to Quebec law. Theoretically, there could not be another independence referendum until after the next Quebec legislative elections, which are scheduled for no later than the fall of 1999.
In practice, however, the Quebec National Assembly, under the control of Parizeau's Parti Quebecois, could change that law.
Chretien, in a televised address late Monday, appealed for reconciliation and offered to cooperate with those seeking governmental change.
Reform Party leader Preston Manning, who advocates shifting many federal powers to the provinces, said the federal government should stop focusing on Quebec and instead make a proposal that works nationwide.
Gilles Duceppe, a leader of the separatist Bloc Quebecois in Parliament, urged the government to make a swift gesture toward Quebec.
"They have to respond quickly and show what they mean by change — unless it's all nothing but hot air, which is possible," he said.
Powell's rivals smell blood
Philosophy, military record vulnerable areas if he runs
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — If Colin Powell becomes candidate Powell, the knives come out. Rivals are already looking over the retired general's vulnerabilities.
powell's military record, philosophy and legendary caution, his reliance on powerful friends to rise as a "political general," his inexperience with the problems that confront a president every day, and now word that his wife has been treated for depression — all become grist for the mill the moment he runs.
Powell says in his autobiography that he knows that if he jumps in, "I would quickly alienate one interest group or another and burn off much popular support."
that opponents might exploit in a campaign:
So far, the attacks come from conservatives who don't want to hand the GOP to a moderate who supports gun control, legalized abortion and affirmative action and who opposes school prayer and aspects of the Republican welfare reform plan.
u oppoPwell's military record. He is no Dwight Eisenhower, who forged history's greatest battlefield victory. In the Persian Gulf War,
Political observers tick off these fault lines
Powell acquiresed in ending the war before Iraq's Saddam Hussein was neutralized and the Republican Guard destroyed.
His military philosophy. "The Powell Doctrine" opposes the use of troops unless clear conditions are met: a precise objective, public support, a will to throw everything at the enemy, an exit plan, the likelihood of low casualties.
fered from depression and takes medication to control a chemical imbalance. The Powells might not relish seeing that hashed out in a campaign.
"Wait until... he's surrounded (by reporters) asking about ethanol..."
Apply those rigidly, retired Lt. Gen. Bernard Trainor said last week, and "you will never use military force for anything."
Family matters. A Powell representative confirmed that Powell's wife, Alma, has suf-
Bob Dole
Republican presidential candidate
Racial politics, Lyn Nofziger, a former adviser to Ronald Reagan who supports Bob Dole, estimated that if he became the first black to run as a major party's nominee, Powell could get 30 to 50 percent of the Black vote, eroding President Clinton's baseline support.
Powell's political innocence. He hasn't been subject to the rough and tumble and doesn't have a canned answer to questions that demand detailed knowledge. "Wait until he comes out and he's surrounded (by reporters) asking about ethanol and target prices and corn yields and that sort of thing," says GOP
front-runner Bob Dole.
Powell, too, could turn out to be thin-skinned. His adulatory march through the book stores of America was hardly the best of preparation.
Numbers ad nauseam fill new Statistical Abstract
Pillow accidents, taxes in Newark and abortion among charted topics
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Homes without cable TV are a definite minority. One in three Americans is still exercising after 75. Rock music sales are twice those of country and 10 times those of jazz.
Here is America in bare statistics, devoid of interpretation. Stacks of stats. From labor force to labor rooms. The kind of stuff important to public officials, business analysts, educators, librarians, research workers, students and the merely curious.
Thirty-four percent of Americans 26 and older have smoked
marijuana at some time in their lives, but only 3 percent are current users. Eight percent of households have herb gardens. A family of four pays more state and local taxes in Newark, N.J., than in other big cities.
Such numbers abound in the new Statistical Abstract of the United States published yesterday. It is a book of more than 1,000 pages, some with enough facts for a game of "Jeopardy!" or "Trial Pursuit."
You learn that lottery ticket sales totaled $2.3 billion in 1980 but $28.5 billion last year.
That of 187.7 million adults in the 1993-1994 period,69 million had no cable television.
That in 1992, there were 6.4 million pregnancies, 4 million births and 1.5 million abortions. The
rest were miscarriages. Seventeen percent of women of childbearing age used contraceptive pills; 10.5 percent relied on condoms. Thirty percent were surgically sterile.
Also in 1992, there were 400,000 injuries involving beds, mattresses and pillows; 44,000 involving cleaning agents and 24,000 involving cigarettes. But the most injuries of all by far, 1.8 million, had to do with stairs, ramps, landings and floors.
The book is a set of statistics in itself, bringing together the most recent figures from the last year or two or three. The government has put it out since 1878, drawing on both public and private sources. The 115th edition adds 76 new tables for a total of 1,512. They include estimates of undocumented immigrants, use of computers, bond ratings for states and cities, union membership by state and home ownership rates.
It drops some, too. No more does the abstract list household pet ownership, medical device implants by age, sex and race, or summary of operations of intercity bus lines.
One of the new tables gives statistics on mothers who smoked during pregnancy. Nearly 18 percent were white, 14 percent black. The more education the mother had, the more likely she was to be a smoker.
And there was record attendance, 71 million, at major league baseball in 1993, the last year listed in the abstract. There won't be a record in the next edition for 1994. The season was stopped short by a strike.
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