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...sound bizarre, but since its inception in 1982. "Volunteers for Israel" has channelled the work of more than 1500 American and 300 French citizens toward the assistance of Israel. This year the program hopes to send 2000 Americans and 900 Frenchmen to work on Israeli army bases...
...into his seven-year term, he is the least popular French President in a quarter-century, with an approval rating in opinion polls of only 32%. Inflation chugs along at 9%, while unemployment, which stood at 6.4% when Mitterrand took office, is now 9.3%, leaving more than 2.1 million Frenchmen jobless. Over the past few months, Mitterrand has been bedeviled by protest marches and strikes by groups ranging from truckers to coal miners to civil servants...
...particularly malignant demon in the Continent's psyche. In France last month, a dispute over extensive layoffs at a Peugeot factory outside Paris degenerated into three days of racial violence that left 120 people injured. The clashes pitted striking workers (mostly immigrants) against those still holding jobs (mostly Frenchmen). More than 20 immigrants have been killed or wounded in other incidents in France in the past year. At least seven, including a ten-year-old boy, were victims of snipers in the tense, ethnically mixed housing complexes outside Paris and other major cities. Racist harassment in Britain...
...reality, just as French kids do. Young North Africans are sick of rejection, unemployment and disrespect. Unless you have a strong character, it's easy to fall into." Studies by France's Social Affairs and Solidarity Ministry indicate, however, that immigrants are no more delinquent than native Frenchmen of equivalent age and social situation...
...Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew. Former Prime Minister Saeb Salam, a leader in the effort to unite the country's warring factions, called the murder "a flagrant disregard for values and an illustration of how seriously security has deteriorated." Particularly vulnerable at the moment are individual Americans and Frenchmen, partly because the terrorists are finding it increasingly difficult to penetrate the military bases and thus are turning their guns on relatively unprotected civilian targets. Two weeks ago gunmen on a motorbike shot and slightly wounded the wife of a French diplomat in broad daylight. As usual, the terrorists escaped...