Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been forced out of their jobs or received transfers. Among the dismissed: News Panel Moderator Jacques Legris, Foreign Affairs Analyst Emmanuel de La Taille and Star Sportscaster Roger Couderc. The purge, a repudiation of the government s pledge of amnesty during the strike and a violation of the French constitution, was described by Le Nouvel Observateur as "the scandal of scandals of 1968. Of all the humiliations inflicted by the regime, this one seems the worst...
...admits, probably would not have been initiated without last spring's student revolt. He thinks that the only opposition to his reforms will come from "some professors who have become sort of little popes." His biggest worry is that anarchist and Trotskyite students bent on revolutionizing all of French society will incite new violence, no matter what educational reforms are achieved. Even the more moderate rebels are a bit wary of Faure's promises. Bernard Herszberg, leader of SNESUP, a militant teachers' group, deplores the government's policy of "repression on one side and seduction...
...professor, he served as a cabinet minister 18 times and Premier of France twice in the revolving-door days of the Fourth Republic, and under Charles de Gaulle. Faure was De Gaulle's chief troubleshooter in handling the colonial clashes with Morocco and Tunisia. He helped forge new French ties with Red China, fought stubbornly to protect the interests of French farmers in negotiating the full integration of agriculture into the Common Market. If he succeeds in reforming French education without another revolt, it might well be his most significant triumph...
...overcome the strike setbacks, Premier Couve de Murville has turned to "the only policy imaginable" - swift economic expansion. In keeping with that goal, the French Cabinet last week unveiled a 1969 budget that calls for an 11% increase in government spending, to $30 billion. While creating a deficit of about $2.5 billion, such outlays are expected to help boost French industrial production by 7% next year, enabling the French economy to achieve a substantial 5½% to 6% growth...
...French workers, besides splurging on vacations at a rate unprecedented in a holiday-happy country, spent enough of their higher wages to lift July retail sales 10% above the 1967 level. Strike-depleted inventories have shrunk so low that many industries expect a manufacturing boom in the fall. Says Finance Minister François-Xavier Ortoli: "The outlook is better than we could have ex pected. The economy is righting itself...