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...American who has lived in France for 20 years, I read "Health Lessons from Europe" with the usual delight and guilt-ridden schadenfreude typical of us expats who enjoy the health-care system here [June 1]. Fourteen years ago, I received a letter from the Sécurité Sociale informing me that I had to book a pelvic X-ray for my then newborn daughter - or risk losing out on future reimbursements and coverage. Several days later, when the results revealed everything to be normal, I asked the radiologist how many infants were diagnosed with a problematic pelvis...
...much more. In fact, it came across as a clear admission that after a decade in office, Chirac has failed to tackle France's two most pressing social problems: unemployment and the integration of immigrant populations. During the 2002 campaign, Chirac vowed to eradicate social division and insécurité - the volatile mix of crime, delinquency and incivility that exploded these past weeks across France, leaving almost 9,000 cars torched and some 3,000 people arrested. As President, Chirac has abolished neither, and now the endgame of his political career has begun. Chirac has played a leading role...
...Chang was too indisposed to travel, they became agitated and shouted "Bullies!" and "Fascists!" at the police. While the Pakistani plane took off without any of the Chinese aboard, both sides swiftly called up reinforcements. Fifty tough riot troopers of the C.R.S. (Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité) took up positions outside the police office in which the drugged Chinese had been bedded down. Fifteen members of Peking's Paris embassy rushed to the scene...
...largely taken from "hate" letters (which have risen startlingly since January). Whenever the President travels, local police keep such people under close surveillance. The U.S. might look to France for further ideas. When De Gaulle travels, his car is flanked by tough Compagnie Républicaine de Sécurité troopers on motorbikes; helicopters hover overhead, and the pace is a brisk 80 miles an hour or more. In towns en route, operating rooms are reserved in hospitals and a supply of De Gaulle's blood type is stocked...
...Moch's efforts to put down the Corsican uprising. In defiance of a direct order, France's air force failed to provide transport to Corsica for 125 of France's "most reliable" cops, the black-helmeted troopers of the Compagnie Républicaine de Sécurité. And when the C.R.S. men finally did reach the island (aboard a chartered Air France plane), their first act was to surrender to a handful of Massu's paratroopers. Cried tough Jules Moch: "I'm not sure of anyone any more...