Word: frenchmens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
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...
...course, there is still a glimmer of hope for France. Perhaps the politicians will be able to strike a bargain of reconciliation and compromise; perhaps the economy will improve, and event which would certainly moderate political divisions and tensions. But Frenchmen are all too aware of the potential dangers that lie ahead. As the mood of impending crisis began to spread and darken last week, the newspaper "Le Figaro" counseled courage and moderation: "Let us stop hating and stop being afraid."But one must wonder, given the current political atmosphere, whether the French are willing, or able, to follow this...