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When French voters finished balloting last week in nationwide municipal elections, they left a haphazardly divided political pie. The Gaullists marginally increased their overall strength, taking 52% of the municipal seats. The Communists won 45 out of France's 193 largest towns-six more than they previously controlled-the...
So far, says Asian, BB's new bust has supplanted ten old Mariannes in mayors' offices around France, at a cost of $105 each. Installing a bust of Brigitte at his party's headquarters in Paris, Radical Party Politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber said: "We should be...
Deadly Fumes. Because the Adriatic and the Mediterranean are fed mainly by such rivers, some scientists fear that even the seas may soon become irreversibly polluted. French Oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau has predicted that the Mediterranean may be devoid of any life up to 25 miles out from its coasts...
What ruffled the jurists was an ill-advised comment by a previously obscure politician named René Tomasini, 51. Elected secretary-general of the Gaullist party only last month, the outspoken Tomasini made his maiden appearance before the parliamentary correspondents' association last week, and he sounded like a Gallic...
The most troubled area is the province of Cautín, 400 miles south of Santiago in the heart of Chile's farming belt. Often at the instigation of the radical group M.I.R. (for Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionario), peasants have occupied at least 350 farms, some too small to...