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...vacant. Nor have recent government pronouncements led consumers to believe in a brighter future. Earlier this month-concurrent with news of the reflation plan-was word that Paris Métro and bus fares would be boosted by 60%. Railway fares will be increased as well. The week before, Frenchmen learned that social security, which absorbs almost a third of the nation's taxes, has a budget deficit that has grown from $400 million to $600 million in one year...
...March elections, a series of strikes has swept France. Some 8,000 workers at France's largest shipyards have now been out for two months, and steelworkers in Lorraine have been off the job for five weeks. There is more in store, if large enough masses of Frenchmen can be persuaded to fall in step...
...took place, are evoked by a wall of papyrus, which in turn gives way to the dramatic climax of the show: the great funeral mask with its blaze of gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian and turquoise. Altogether, it is small wonder that in the first 20 days, some 180,000 Frenchmen have fought their way through the lines-ironically, ignoring the nearby Louvre's permanent display of 4,000 Egyptian objects, which attract no more than a few dozen foreign tourists...
...dropping all barriers to the import and export of francs and securities, and by ending restrictions against converting the franc into other currencies, De Gaulle's government aimed at raising France's relatively low standing as an international financial center. Frenchmen can now hold accounts in foreign banks, pay for hotel bills, purchases and apartments abroad with a French check. Though foreign investment and borrowing in France remain subject to some restrictions, foreigners can now freely acquire up to 20% of the capital of a French firm, invest in French stocks, buy French property...
N.E.T. JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "France Is Dead: Long Live France!" Since the end of World War II France has become a land of the very old and the very young-today one-third of all Frenchmen are under 20. Reporter David Schoenbrun talks to the French about the New France, their goals, De Gaulle and the war in Viet...