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- <text id=93TT1142>
- <title>
- Mar. 08, 1993: Time to Bow Out
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 08, 1993 The Search for the Tower Bomber
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 18
- WORLD
- Time to Bow Out
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Canada's Mulroney makes room for a new Conservative leader
- </p>
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- <p> What was a man to do? Brian Mulroney, 53, had twice led his
- Progressive Conservative Party to victory, introduced a history-making
- free-trade pact with the U.S., and imposed an economically sound
- 7% value-added sales tax. But Canada remained mired in a deep
- economic recession, and a messy constitutional wrangle with
- Quebec lingered unresolved. Not since August 1990 had Mulroney's
- approval ratings passed 20%, and chances of winning a fall election
- seemed remote. Eight and a half years into the job, the Prime
- Minister said he would step aside in favor of a fresh face to
- lead the country.
- </p>
- <p> Mulroney will yield in mid-June, when his party chooses a successor,
- who will serve as Prime Minister until parliamentary elections
- are held, probably in September. Defense Minister Kim Campbell,
- 45, leads a passel of undeclared P.C. pretenders. The likely
- opponent, for now, would appear to be Jean Chretien, 59, chief
- of the Liberal Party, which led the Conservatives 45% to 25%
- in the latest poll.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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