Word: chaumont
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...local with the support of a chapter of the Socialist-dominated Confederation Franchise Democratique du Travail, the country's second largest trade union.* Also, a group of enlisted men wearing masks to hide their identities held a press conference to announce the creation of a similar union at Chaumont, 140 miles southeast of Paris. Since then, other illegal army organizations have sprung up, and a Socialist group was sighted recently distributing inflammatory leaflets at a Paris railway station to impressionable recruits on weekend passes...