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DATE: SUNDAY, June 10, 1990                   TAG: 9006100181
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: TORONTO                                LENGTH: Short

CANADIANS REACH DEAL IN CRISIS OVER QUEBEC

Canada's leaders struck a tentative deal Saturday night to rescue a constitutional accord that would grant special status to French-speaking Quebec.

Newfoundland's leader said he remained dissatisfied with the compromise but may submit it for a popular referendum.

The agreement came on the seventh day of private talks aimed at persuading holdout provinces to approve the package.

Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa initially boycotted the talks Saturday after refusing to discuss changes in the clause that would recognize Quebec as a "distinct society." However, later in the day, he returned to the talks.

The tentative agreement reached Saturday would leave the distinct-society clause unaltered but ask constitutional experts to prepare a legal opinion on how it would affect the country's rights charter. - Associated Press

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