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...sentiments long championed by Le Pen. "When you put immigration and national identity side by side, it creates the notion that immigration poses a threat to national identity - which can inspire racism," Mouloud Aounit, president of the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Between Peoples, told the daily l'Humanité on Nov. 2. "But this debate also reveals an identity crisis of a part of French society ... and the failure of its model of integration, which doesn't allow people to do just that...
...same. Conservative daily Le Figaro now says it will also suspend publication on three French holidays. That follows the earlier lead of financial dailies Les Echos and La Tribune to sit out national holidays - a sous-pinching habit to which Catholic daily La Croix and its communist opposite L'Humanité have also since subscribed. (See pictures of France celebrating Bastille...
...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...
...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...