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To: goldsnow who wrote (14654)	9/24/1999 10:11:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 17770

Goldsnow, My comparative hint with the American situation is indeed absurd so long as all of the 50 US States agree to comply with the US Constitution and abide by the Washington-based federal government --I seem to remember that such an allegiance was once challenged (1861-1865)..... By raising the issue of Spanish Catalunia or the more critical Basque secessionism, you just hit the nail on the head: Europe's centrifugal stresses have always coalesced around ethnic and parochial criteria --quite a difference with the US picture. Two days ago, a French couple who threw in the towel with their mom-and-pop farm business in Bretagne decided to start a new life in Corsica (a French island in the Mediterranean, north of Sardinia). Well, guess what happened to them.... Corsican mafiosi-turned-terrorists got them in the middle of the night, abandoned them in the Corsican bush and came back to their newly acquired Corsican estate --just to blow it up with TNT !! This was interpreted by the French press as a warning to PM Lionel Jospin scheduled to visit Corsica by the end of the month..... Bottom line: even white, Catholic, all-French denizens are not welcomed in Corsica --unless as occasional tourists splurging their money in Corsican-owned resorts. If the US were to apply such a narrow-minded jingoism then the New York mob would shanghai Hillary Clinton into leaving the city because she's an outsider, Californian fellows would say to George W to stick to his Texan turf and to keep out of California, etc.