Word: humanit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communists hastened to aggravate these fears; L'Humanité cried: "Let French Mothers Again Tremble!" The British made difficulties too. They did not like a U.S. suggestion that their plans to socialize Ruhr mines be postponed...
...faithful struggled to keep their wares as unsullied as their ideology. Neither was easy for France's Communist Party (P.C.F.) last week as hundreds of thousands of members and sympathizers gathered for their annual fund-raising fair, the fête de l'humanité, in a 37-acre park in the working-class Paris suburb of La Courneuve. While construction workers, secretaries and concierges wrestled with their crepes, foie gras and muscadet in the pounding rain, party leaders were striving to maintain loyalty on the most emotional issue of the day: the shooting down of Korean...
...clear that whatever they have gained in approbation from Moscow for their orthodoxy they have lost in public support. Since 1978 the party's share of the popular vote has declined from 20% to less than 15%, and circulation of the party newspaper L'Humanité dropped by nearly 14%, to 130,000 in 1982. In municipal elections last March the Communists lost control of 15 large cities. Last week the elections of four Communist mayors were annulled by the Council of State because of voting fraud, and three other Communist mayors and a deputy mayor were indicted...
Many visitors to the fête de l'humanité last week would agree with Chantal Courric, a state electric-company employee, when she said, "Whatever happens, we've got to play the game." But then, French Communists are adept at using bourgeois ways for their own ends. Commercialism at the fair gushed from 450 concession stands, hawking everything from television sets and encyclopedias to mussels and, of course, Russian vodka. Juxtaposed against such enterprising capitalism were signs and banners proclaiming WE ARE LEADING THE ANTIRACIST STRUGGLE and STOP YANKEE INTERVENTION IN CENTRAL AMERICA...
...France, the Communist daily L'Humanité took the opportunity to attack Reagan and to attract attention to the peace march held in Paris last Sunday. Beneath a front-page photograph of Reagan before a mushroom cloud, the paper ran the giant headline: NO EUROSHIMA! But the government of President François Mitterrand supported its American ally...