Word: gaullist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wake of their strike against Gaullist censorship (TIME, July 26), 102 of France's broadcast journalists 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...
Faure's open approval of many rebel goals has shocked some Gaullist legislators, as well as traditionalist bureaucrats and scholars. "The Napoleonic conception of the centralized, authoritarian university is outdated," he told the National Assembly last month. "The little empires, the little feudalisms in certain sectors of higher education and research have shown their senility." Faure concedes the validity of student complaints that the examination system is obsolete and arbitrary and that the facilities are inadequate and overcrowded. He is pushing for exams that would be more frequent but more fair, based on testing working knowledge of a subject...
Paradoxically, that cushion of unused plant and manpower, plus the country's still ample $4.75 billion reserves, is what now gives France its opportunity for an economic rebound without serious inflation. Despite the staggering wage gains of French labor (13% to 14% for all of 1968), the Gaullist government aims at holding price increases to 3% during the last half of this year. It is relying on what one Finance Ministry official calls "a battery of tools to regulate prices without actually enforcing price controls." Under the French contrat de programme, for example, thousands of industrial and retail firms...
...enduring arsenal of the Paris Commune in the great battles across the barricades in 1871. With such textbook examples of tactics, it was hardly surprising that the student rioters of 1968 found the paving stones of the Left Bank a prime weapon in their nightly insurrections against the Gaullist regime...
Ultimate Purge. Newsmen have never been allowed to put penetrating questions to government officials. Instead, the routine suggestion is: "Please explain your program to the viewers." Where Gaullist drum beating is given plenty of time, opposition leaders are permitted to appear only fleetingly, and usually in a background still photo while a droning announcer reads their carefully edited words. On his return to France recently, Georges Bidault said at a press conference: "I ask you to vote against the Communists and against the Gaullists." Later, French radio quoted him as saying only: "I ask you to vote against Communism...