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...polls all seem to show that a majority of Frenchmen want a change of government, and that they want to elect the left. What is causing this desire for change...
...Socialists and Communists won-and reconciled their differences-the left would have to engineer tough new restrictions on capital flow and, to save jobs, erect new tariff barriers. Such protectionism would isolate France within the European Community and gradually cut the country off from its trading partners. Even for Frenchmen, that is a prodigiously high price to pay for a free lunch...
According to the polls, however. many Frenchmen regard a leftist victory in the March parliamentary elections as a welcome breath of spring rather than a fearful typhoon. A survey appearing in the newsmagazine Le Point this week shows that 52% of the electorate would vote for the leftist parties as against 44% for the center-right. One top Gaullist leader even believes that the left might well reach 55% by election time. If that happens, Socialist Leader Francois Mitterrand would almost certainly become Premier-and France would face the possibility of having Communists in Cabinet posts for the first time...
...crimes have become regular incidents elsewhere, especially in Italy. Justice Minister Alain Peyrefitte appealed for Empain's return, citing the "hundreds of kidnapings" in Italy and their effect on that country. Said he: "We don't want a reign of violence and anarchy" in France. Other wealthy Frenchmen noted grimly that Empain habitually went about without bodyguards, something no Italian or West German worth his limousine would dare any more...
Technology-nuclear weapons, microcomputers, killer satellites-may have rendered some of Kafka's nightmares obsolete. And we have lived so long with the absurd, retailed for so many years by so many depressing Frenchmen, that it bores us. But Franz Kafka's works still serve the primary function he described in a 1904 letter to his friend Oskar Pollak: "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside...