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...seven-year term, he is the least popular French President in a quarter-century, with an approval rating in opinion polls of only 32%. Inflation chugs along at 9%, while unemployment, which stood at 6.4% when Mitterrand took office, is now 9.3%, leaving more than 2.1 million Frenchmen jobless. Over the past few months, Mitterrand has been bedeviled by protest marches and strikes by groups ranging from truckers to coal miners to civil servants...
Because the rural economy is especially unpromising, jobless Peruvians have been migrating to the capital in frightening numbers. A pleasant colonial-style city of 1.5 million inhabitants 20 years ago, Lima has become a nightmarish sprawl of 6.5 million. The city has grown so fast that suburban slum districts housing 500,000 people are not even included on current maps. Almost 40% of the country's 18 million people are now crowded into the capital. Says Senator Manuel Ulloa Ellas, a close adviser to Belaúnde: "For many of these people, there are no jobs, no services...
...extermination against the guerrillas and their supporters, and draws cheers from well-to-do Salvadorans by vowing to return already nationalized industries to private hands. To his lower-income countrymen he holds out the vague prospect of full employment (40% of the labor force is currently jobless), but offers few concrete proposals for attaining it. In a recent bid to modify his reputation as a leading force behind El Salvador's death squads, D'Aubuisson has taken to adding in speeches that "it is not right to take justice into our hands. We must stop that...
...Urban League's statistical portrait was one of intractable joblessness and poverty, even in the face of a robust national recovery. In December, the national unemployment rate fell to 8.2%, the lowest in more than two years. But for blacks, whose jobless rate traditionally is roughly double that for whites, the unemployment rate was a dispiriting...
...Japan, Western Europe nonetheless can expect average growth of 2.5% this year. At the same time, the inflation rate will continue falling, from last year's 7.5% to 6.8% in 1984. Unemployment is not expected to decrease, but the rise in the number of jobless will halt and remain at this year's level of 10.5%. Said Samuel Brittan, assistant editor of London's Financial Times: "Europe clearly is a tortoise when com pared with the U.S. and Japan, but it is not a tortoise in relation to its own recent performance...