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...Because they cling to obsolete slogans," thundered Gaullist Minister François Missoffe last week, "the unions will suffer the same fate as the political parties and be demolished." But things did not work out quite that way. In France's northern coal fields, 188,000 miners wore smiles of victory as they trooped back to the pits after their bitter 35-day strike. Defying a government antistrike decree that could have resulted in fines, firings and jail terms, the miners had won an immediate 6.5% pay boost that will rise to 12.5% by next April...
PARIS--The presence of a very large number of heavily-armed police in this capital seems to have become an institutionalized feature of the Gaullist Fifth Republic. Although there are arguments for and against the over-whelming force the government keeps in the city, the fact is that the crises which necessitated extraordinary police measures are gone, and the police...
...Gaullist aides began to ponder ways to get him back into the legislature, where, if elected, he was likely to become majority leader. Trouble was, no Gaullist faction in France itself wanted him. But at last a constituency was found where Debre seemed unlikely to lose. Last week the former Premier gulped hard and accepted a bid to run for office on Reunion Island, a tiny French dot in the Indian Ocean nearly 6,000 miles from Paris...
...says he was once seen riding in an empty limousine. He has a fussy manner and a flat, whining voice that somehow rub politicians and many other Frenchmen the wrong way, obscuring his considerable administrative talents. In Charles de Gaulle's electoral landslide last November, Debre-the dedicated Gaullist. major architect of the Fifth Republic's constitution, and the man who served a longer uninterrupted period as Premier (1,193 days) than any other in French parliamentary history-was ignominiously defeated in his own carefully cultivated rural constituency by a local garage owner...
Some of the government's repressions are explicable as international backscratching. De Gaulle's increasing amiability toward Spain has been rewarded by Franco's jailing of six top anti-Gaullist terrorists who were hiding out in Spain. Banning the Stalingrad show may just possibly have been repaid last week when German police failed to prevent mysterious French agents in Munich from kidnaping a top S.A.O. leader, Antoine Argoud (see below). But it seemed unlikely that Khrushchev would care greatly if Nureyev danced in Paris, or that Adenauer would object to being damned by Nikita...