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...operations at home. One beneficiary is the media company Vivendi Universal, which recently won a tax break it estimates to be worth €3.8 billion over the next six or seven years. In exchange, it agreed to create two new call centers - in the northern town of Douai and Belfort in the east. The government isn't saying how many jobs it hopes to keep, but Sarkozy tells TIME that "I'm paid to find a solution." A TIME poll finds that nearly 8 out of 10 French citizens agree with his efforts. Yet experts question whether governments...
Vojislav Kostunica gained people's confidence in a peaceful, democratic and legitimate way. LYUBOMIR T. GRUYITCH Belfort, France...
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...French town of Belfort (pop. 65,000), Philosophy Teacher Nicole Mercier, 28, was asked by her high school students to discuss a widely circulated pamphlet entitled Apprenons à Faire l'Amour (Let's Learn to Make Love), which recommends that teenagers engage in sexual intercourse of all varieties. When she agreed, one pupil told her father, an army colonel, who cried out: "This is not sex education! This is an invitation to debauchery...
Within 24 hours, authorities arraigned Mme. Mercier for an "outrage" against public morals, a crime for which she faced up to two years in prison and $3,600 in fines. Mme. Mercier's fellow teachers struck Belfort's three schools for several days in protest, and there was even talk of a nationwide strike...