The man who wants to lead 6 million Quebeckers out of Canadian confederation made a spirited appeal to the hearts and pocketbooks of U.S. businessmen last week. Diminutive, chain-smoking Quebec Premier Rene Levesque, 54, flew into New York City to sell financial institutions on separatism ("almost as inevitable as it was for the American states of 200 years ago") and the respectability of his left-of-center Parti Quebecois government. During a day-long tour of banking houses, and again in an address before 1,700 members and guests of New York's blue-chip Economic Club, Levesque did his best to persuade businessmen that his...
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