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...that history was not repeating itself. Beyond the folklore of protest, the political realities of 1983 bear little resemblance to those of 1968. Above all, this time militant students lack the support of the unions and workers, who tend to regard them as part of the privileged bourgeois elite. Alain Krivine, one of the leaders of the 1968 uprising and now head of a Trotskyite splinter party, recalled that "we had 60,000 to 70,000 students in the streets." In the past three weeks, fewer than 10,000 students have turned out for any given protest. Said Krivine: "Today...
...mood has translated into a bewildering checkerboard of largely middle-class protest. Hospital interns and senior clinic physicians struck nationwide for five weeks, protesting a government plan that would reduce their chances for promotion. University students are objecting to a sweeping plan, drawn up by Education Minister Alain Savary, that they say is threatening academic freedom by proposing to make universities more responsive to the needs of the economy. Medical students are opposing exams designed to determine who will be allowed to become specialists, while pharmacy students are refusing to accept official plans to prolong their studies by a year...
Some kind of turbulence had seemed imminent ever since French students fathomed the implications of an almost impenetrable, 68-article scheme for restructuring French education, proposed last September by Education Minister Alain Savary. The plan threatens, for example, to curtail subjects like art restoration and comparative Literature that are not deemed useful to society. As originally drafted, moreover, it suggests that all high school graduates be allowed to enter a university. Some 75% of them would be eliminated through competitive exams after two years, thus implicitly encouraging students to pursue technical training. The protesters also object to a provision that...
...enigmatic French Actress Fanny Ardant, 32, in Francois Truffaut's The Woman Next Door. But European directors suddenly all seem to be Ardant fans. Though little more than a pretty face in French theater and television three years ago, she has recently starred in a new movie for Alain Resnais, has done a second one with Truffaut, and has two more in the works. Last week she finished filming Benvenuta in Belgium, and next week in Italy she starts Sun and Night. Not bad for a relative newcomer. But Ardant wants to return to the stage. "Because I love...
...national policy. As the results came in, Socialist cities fell like dominoes-first the Brittany port of Brest, then the champagne capital of Reims, then the major industrial center of Nantes. The most sobering and startling of all losses was in the southeastern university town of Grenoble. There Conservative Alain Carignon trounced Socialist Hubert Dubedout, who has managed a model city for 18 years; the margin was a jolting 54% to 43%. The Communists, who have four ministers in Mitterrand's government, fared no better, losing eight cities that they had previously governed, including perfume capital Grasse and auto...