Word: laniel
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...making its choice, West Germany pushed French Premier Laniel and his government to a point where France could not much longer delay its choice. With West Germany's strength badly needed in the cold-war defense line, France had to choose the European Army or risk some blunter solution that puts Germans back into their own feldgrau uniforms, with their own high command. Jauntily expectant that a decision is in the offing, Bonn's "Bureau Blank," the embryonic West German war ministry, last week placed an ad in the newspapers: "Wanted: 500 clerks, secretaries and interpreters ... Must...
French Premier Joseph Laniel's first try at national economizing was a cut in the government's huge pension payments. Result: a chain explosion of crippling strikes that threw him into retreat. Last week Laniel tried a couple of other, less risky approaches-a fiat lowering prices and a crackdown on France's multitude of tax evaders...
...these troubles scarcely ruffled Chanel No. 5's No. 1 man. Along with other Paris perfumers last month, he agreed to underwrite the Grasse industry by paying "fair prices" for the essential oils. Keeping prices up is a habit in the industry. When the Laniel government issued a decree forbidding price-fixing last month, the Syndicat de la Parfumerie intervened with the authorities and got themselves exempted...
...Communists might, in fact, count the strike a success-if no one else could. The Laniel government, which for three weeks alternated between weakness and firmness, lost ground. The peace agreement that it signed with anti-Communist unions (it refused to deal with the C.G.T.) abandoned some of the very economy decrees over which the strike had started. The government now promised to pay communications workers a year-end bonus, to leave transport workers' retirement schemes essentially untouched and to convene the collective bargaining board to consider raising minimum wages...
This week, trying to regain ground and to stall off further trouble, the Laniel government reached an agreement with Paris butchers for a 10% price reduction on steaks and cheaper cuts of meat. By means of similar deals with cartel trade associations, the government hopes to get 5% to 10% price reductions on other food, household goods, linen and clothes...