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...only $427 a year out of the country when they travel for pleasure. The penalty for being caught with more: confiscation of the money plus a maximum fine of five times that amount. Complicating matters, personal credit cards issued in France may no longer be used abroad. Said Jean-François Deniau, who was Foreign Trade Minister under former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing: "We are condemned to spend our vacations in the countryside with Grandmother." Particularly ironic was the fact that shortly after his election, Mitterrand fulfilled a campaign promise by adding a fifth week...
...hurt anyone. Instead of relying on income taxes, French authorities in the '50s introduced the value-added tax, which collects anywhere from 5% to 33% on most commercial transactions. Like any sales tax, it implicitly discriminates against the poor, but the Socialist regime under President François Mitterrand is trying to balance that with special new taxes-on jewelry, yachts and country châteaus-that apply almost exclusively to the rich...
...seemed just as eager to ignore their ideological debt to the political theorist. During a press conference that happened to fall on the anniversary, Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González conveniently avoided the topic, concentrating instead on the achievements of his first 100 days in office. French President François Mitterrand had nothing to say on the occasion, although his Communist partners took the typically Gallic step of convening an international symposium at the University of Paris to discuss Marx's writings...
Nothing seemed to go right for French President François Mitterrand last week. His Premier, Pierre Mauroy, was chased out of the annual Paris Agriculture Show by the boos of 1,000 hecklers who tossed beer cans at him and shouted, "Resign! Resign!" Army Chief of Staff General Jean Delaunay quit to protest plans to curb military spending by cutting manpower in the armed forces. But the greatest show of displeasure came from a majority of the country's 28 million voters. In the first of two rounds of balloting for municipal elections, they delivered an unambiguous message...
Although the school committee has said it is committed to increasing the proportion of minority faculty in Cambridge schools. Fran Cooper, another plaintiff, said Sunday that, "their intention has been weakened by the proposal's vague language...