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...sets, watching the superpower grope in the dark. "We stayed up for an hour watching it," said a taxi driver, "until the electricity shut down." --Reported by Amanda Bower, Sean Gregory and Jyoti Thottam/New York; Laura Eggertson/Ottawa; Steven Frank/Toronto; Elisabeth Kauffman/Nashville; Eric Roston, Douglas Waller and Mark Thompson/Washington; Fran Stewart/Cleveland; and Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas
...Health Ministry puts the estimated death toll at 3,000. Raffarin cuts short his vacation and returns to Paris. Just before temperatures finally return to normal, the French government launches a nationwide emergency plan to provide extra hospital beds and staff. AUG. 18 Health Minister Jean-François Mattei says the estimate of 5,000 heat- related deaths is "plausible." Surgeon general Lucien Abenhaïm resigns, citing "the present controversies surrounding the handling of the epidemic linked to the heat wave," but denies responsibility. AUG. 20 France's biggest chain of undertakers, OGF, says more than...
...that tradition is under attack. According to the Fédération Nationale des Cinémas Français, 13 cinemas have closed since 1985 in the Latin Quarter alone, the heart of repertoire moviegoing. Even though the independent theaters receive national subsidies in the tens of thousands of euros per screen, "it will be tough for theaters like ours in the next few years," says Daniel Cartier, projection manager at the illustrious Le Champo cinema, which has been run by the same family since 1939. Despite the theater's overall historic popularity, a recent James Bond revival...
...report, written by an ally of President Jacques Chirac, may prefigure aggressive privatization: it recommends creating a single agency to handle state holdings and, significantly, transforming all nationalized businesses into joint-stock firms. Air France is likely the first privatization candidate, but the French press concluded that EDF boss François Roussely's job is at risk. Roussely, calling EDF "healthy, competitive and profitable," noted that government appointees on his board all signed off on his strategy. Plus ça change ... - By Peter Gumbel Everyone's Seeing Red Deficits are back in fashion. Shrugging off the E.U.'s straitjacket...
...Paris-sponsored referendum proposing administrative reform and greater autonomy for the island. Only 16 days before the referendum, opinion polls had the yes camp ahead by 6%. "Corsicans realized this was a doctrine of decentralization being applied to Corsica, not a studied plan to address our problems," said François Tatti, deputy mayor of Bastia, where the no vote surpassed 70%. Arresting Development TURKEY Already strained relations with the U.S. took a sharp turn for the worse when American soldiers in Iraq arrested 11 Turkish troops stationed in the northern Iraqi town of Suleimaniyah, and accused them of plotting...