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While medical students dramatically broadcast their disgruntlement by releasing laboratory mice in Rouen and hanging a combative banner from the Eiffel Tower, the dissension snowballed. Law students declared a strike two weeks ago; last week economics faculties and the liberal-arts Sorbonne followed suit. In response, the government postponed its plans to present the Savary reforms to the National Assembly this week...
First France's Socialist government outraged the country by decreeing this spring that vacationers could each spend no more than about $425 abroad. Thousands of French travel agents took to the streets for banner-waving protests that helped force the government to ease the restriction. Now President Francois Mitterrand's Cabinet has raised outcries by proposing a ban on slot machines. The move, which the French National Assembly is expected to approve by midsummer, also puts a five-game limit on the number of turns that can be won on video games and pinball machines. Pouted one newspaper...
...blacks nationwide, Washington's win was a symbol of the fruits of political participation. "This is the most significant black political movement since the Selma-to-Montgomery march" 18 years ago, said Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson. RIZZO IS NEXT read a banner at the victory celebration. Indeed, if Wilson Goode, now well ahead, beats former Mayor Frank Rizzo in next month's primary in Philadelphia and goes on to become mayor, the leaders of four of the nation's six largest cities will be black, an impressive buildup of political muscle...
Margaret Waters, a junior in Winthrop House, carried the banner for Harvard's female runners Competing in only her second marathon. Waters reached the pru in 3.03:32. "I were a Harvard shirt and people cheered me on a lot," the cross-country skier said last night. "It was hard...
Someone raised a banner reading "Rizzo is next," referring to the opponent in a May primary of Philadelphia's Black mayoral candidate Wilson Goode. The crowd erupted again...