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When he took office last May, Socialist President François Mitterrand vowed to cease all executions, although polls show that 62% of the French people are opposed to the change. Last week, after two days of heated debate, France's National Assembly voted 363 to 117 to approve a bill that abolishes the death penalty...
...uses about four times as much fuel per passenger as a 747, the Concorde has been a money loser since its maiden flights in 1976. The British and French governments now subsidize it at a rate of roughly $90 million a year. The Socialist government of France's François Mitterrand is considering grounding the prestige plane. Officials of the two nations will open talks next month on the possibility of ending, or at least severely curtailing, Concorde passenger flights...
...said Yves Laulan, chief economist for France's big Société Générale bank, last week, and few of his colleagues were prepared to disagree with him. Four months after the Socialist Party's overwhelming election victories in the spring, President François Mitterrand is determinedly pressing ahead with plans to nationalize France's 36 largest privately owned banks and investment houses. Mitterrand's coalition Cabinet, which includes four Communists, is expected to announce final details of the state takeover this week. The action will make France the only...
Many teachers and parents are skeptical of computer-controlled, cartoon-like learning devices. They wonder, as Author Fran Lebowitz has put it, what happens when the child "discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around the room with royal-blue chickens." But the juvenile appetite for dancing letters appears to be insatiable. Indeed, this fall some of the computer software, designed by Children's Television Workshop of New York City, creators of Sesame Street and Sesame Place, will be available in computer retail shops and by direct mail from Apple...
Enthusiastic about sophomore goalkeeper Fran O'Donoghue, Corrigan said she "looks 100 per cent better" after a summer at field hockey development camp. Also sophomore Carol Trask, who tied for the honor of leading scorer on the team last year, will be back...