Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cultural identification with -and economic dependence on-the mother country. France still pours some $250 million in annual aid into its former African colonies (although 85% of this amount flows back to France in the form of wages to French employees and profits for French companies). Some 200,000 Frenchmen still live in the former colonies; not only do they dominate power companies, railways, airways and broadcasting, they also strongly influence most branches of governments-including armies and police forces. The French army, moreover, is never far away. "As soon as a cloud hangs over a presidential palace," says...
...Under Georges Marchais, 50, who has taken over active direction of the party from ailing Party Secretary Waldeck Rochet, 65, the French Communists are seeking to recast their image. Other party stalwarts are helping out. In December, the Communists' 1969 presidential candidate, Jacques Duclos, joined other well-known Frenchmen on television to describe how he interpreted Christmas. Looking like Santa Claus in mufti, the beaming, rolypoly former pastry chef said it meant peace and good will...
...Gaullists, or as leaders of a popular front movement. But former Party Member Annie Kriegel, a political scientist at Paris University's turbulent Nanterre campus, doubts that they can become either. "The Communist Party," she says, "constitutes the opposition without being the alternative." Even so, 61% of the Frenchmen questioned in a national poll said that they would consider it normal for Communist ministers to participate in a future left-wing coalition...
...seillers techniques swarm over Gabon, and as one of them puts it: "We no longer rule, we only advise. But if they don't take our advice-phfft! It's their country." In Abidjan, capital of the Ivory Coast, there are more than twice as many Frenchmen as there were in 1960. Ministerial office suites are constructed with two offices of equal size, one for the minister, the other for his French "seconder." In Niger, as elsewhere, students in the French-controlled schools are required to study the same subjects at the same levels of proficiency as children...
Confronted with Paris' stiff prices, many a visiting American has wondered how the French manage to live at all well on their monthly salaries, which average far below U.S. scales. The answer is that Frenchmen do not get by on their salaries alone. Thanks to an elaborate system of vacation bonuses, workers receive up to 14 months' pay a year. Fringe benefits-from subsidized lunches to company-paid housing-are far more generous than those in the U.S. or Britain. Today Frenchmen are more than ever enjoying the good life, evident in the brisk trade of big department...