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Police pursued complaints of manipulation of wealthy cultists for their money by shadowy Solar Temple survivors. With the guru's demise, though, the decapitated order seemed likely to wither away. Vuarnet's family knew better. Recalling his brother's guilt at not having been "called" in 1994, Alain Vuarnet says Patrick "looked me straight in the eye and said, 'Alain, you are the one deluding yourself. You just don't understand.' " In view of the cult's still extensive assets and international following, authorities are trying harder than ever now to understand...
...despite union calls to hold out. The three-week strike, led by transport workers, was in protest against proposed reforms to the French social-security system, and in particular a tightening of the retirement scheme of France's 5.5 million public-sector workers. Following concessions made by Prime Minister Alain Juppe on the retirement issue, many workers voted to end the labor action, which had never gained the active support of private-sector employees as hoped...
...Janice M. Horowitz, Lina Lofaro, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Alain L. Sanders and Sidney Urquhart
...Alain, Roy or Chuckie Hughes, the two freshmen who, carried Harvard men's hockey to the NCAA Championship...
After the election, however, Chirac and Prime Minister Alain Juppe confronted a hard reality: to meet the budgetary requirements for joining Europe's single currency by 1999, France must drastically reduce its public deficit from 6% of its GDP, or $83.6 billion, to 3%. As a result, in a jolting reverse, Chirac has abandoned his pump-priming promises in favor of a two-year program of new taxes, limits on social spending, and a public-sector wage freeze...