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...FRANCE. Jean-Marie Chevalier, a professor of economics at the University of Paris Nord, finds his country's economy slowly improving but with great difficulty. Last year, he observed, was the third year since World War II that real personal disposable income declined in France. The others were 1980 and 1982. The Socialist government of President Francois Mitterrand, he said, is still paying for the illfated attempt to spend its way out of recession during its first year of power, in 1981. The gross national product grew by 1.5% last year, and Chevalier expects it to be just...
...first the Pisani plan seemed to placate Jean-Marie Tjibaou, leader of the Liberation Front. But at week's end Tjibaou declared that his party would be content with nothing less than complete sovereignty. The caldoches continue to argue that the Pisani plan would lead to a Kanak takeover. Pisani declared a state of emergency throughout the territory, including a dawn-to-dusk curfew. In Paris, where Premier Laurent Fabius dispatched 1,000 fresh troops to New Caledonia, a political uproar was brewing. Right-wing opponents of President Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government joined the island's French community...
...serial murders senseless, but we know that buried deep inside a Wayne Williams lies a horrible, though perhaps unfathomable, purpose. We suspect a reason, some powerful, twisted logic. Anomic violence, on the other hand, is truly senseless. Thus crimes of madness elicit from us revulsion; crimes of need (like Jean Valjean's) sympathy; but crimes for fun, for a video game, for no purpose, elicit rage. John Hinckley Jr. did more damage in a minute than these four combined had done in a lifetime. But there could be no satisfaction in blowing him away. Blow these four away...
...Pittsburgh in November to pursue an agreement with Carnegie-Mellon University, which heads a 17-campus consortium that offers French firms direct access to U.S. research in automated manufacturing, robotics, artificial intelligence and computer- based education. "In Gaullist times French identity was to be defended against American domination," says Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, author (The American Challenge) and former Cabinet minister who heads the government's computer-development agency. "Now instead of being afraid of America, we are forging all possible links." Despite disagreements over Central America and Libya, Mitterrand's Socialist government has turned out to be among...
...That is a truth every diarist apprehends, first instinctively and then with the evidence of the page. In this critical anthology, Thomas Mallon, a professor of English at Vassar, offers hundreds of such proofs, from diaries as old as Samuel Pepys' and as contemporary as Graham Greene's and Jean Harris...