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...Paris scene. So far, the Shrivers have staged half a dozen soirees for 30 to 50 young French and American students and professional people. Shriver acts as moderator, pacing about, sitting in a chair or squatting on the floor. On one such evening, Economist Walter Heller discussed the new Gaullist idea of employee participation in management with French economics students, financial writers and young Finance Ministry experts. Another evening pitted Evangelist Billy Graham against the World Council of Churches' Eugene Carson Blake before a group of worker-priests and students. Recently, U.S. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Wilbur Cohen...
...bombing of North Viet Nam in March. De Gaulle hailed that as "an act of reason and political courage." The general was no less pleased with the choice of Paris as the site for the Washington-Hanoi negotiations. Then came France's May riots, which shook the Gaullist monolith and weakened the franc; the Shrivers deplaned as students were battling police by night in the Latin Quarter. As the pro-De Gaulle newspaper Paris-Presse observed, "M. Shriver started from scratch at a time when France was making a clean sweep of the past." The assassination of Robert Kennedy...
...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 "The Napoleonic conception of the centralized, authoritarian university is outdated," he told the National Assembly last month.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 Faure concedes the validity of student complaints that the examination system is obsolete and arbitrary and that the facilities are inadequate and overcrowded.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...