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In 1976, MacLean was persuaded to leave federal politics and take the leadership of the Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative Party which had languished in opposition for a decade. MacLean led the party to victory in 1979 and formed a government that emphasised community life, banned new shopping malls and cancelled the province's participation in a project to build a nuclear reactorLeibstadt, Switzerland. The nuclear reactor is inside the dome-shaped containment building. A nuclear reactor is a device in which nuclear fission chain reactions are initiated, controlled, and sustained at a steady rate (as opposed to a nuclear explosion. At the age of 67, MacLean retired as Premier on November 17November 17 is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece. November 17 is the 321st day of the year (322nd in leap years), with 44 remaining. Events The Leonids are visible each year around this day. 1292 ( Julian calendar) John Balliol becomes King of Sc, 1981Events January-February January Sarawak Chamber found January 1 Greece enters the EEC January 1 Palau becomes self-governing January 4 Sheffield police arrests Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper January 16 Protestant gunmen shoot and wound Bernadette D and did not run in the 1982 provincial election preferring to return to the family farm.