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- <title>
- Aug. 20, 1990: World Notes:Canada
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Aug. 20, 1990 Showdown
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 55
- World Notes
- CANADA
- Talking Under The Gun
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- <p> Canada's military was also in demand last week, but not in
- the Saudi desert. Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa called for
- federal troops to man barricades at two Mohawk reserves in
- Quebec, where natives and police have been locked in an armed
- standoff for nearly a month. While the soldiers stand ready,
- Prime Minister Brian Mulroney hopes Alan Gold, a Quebec judge
- and experienced mediator, can negotiate an end to the impasse.
- </p>
- <p> The Indians initiated the blockade to force the town of Oka
- to drop plans to expand a golf course onto land the Mohawks
- consider sacred property. An aborted police raid last month to
- break the boycott ended in the fatal shooting of an officer.
- </p>
- <p> Although angry townsfolk demanded immediate action, the
- army's mandate is simply to keep the peace should Gold consider
- it necessary.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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