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...drama showdown - and perhaps the survival of the de Villepin government - will be decided neither in the streets, nor in the corridors of power. Instead, the disputed law's fate will soon be determined when an independent commission issues its ruling on whether the law is even constitutional. The 12 justices on France's Constitutional Council are set to deliver their judgment late this week on the legality of de Villepin's controversial law-which seeks to reduce chronic youth unemployment levels of over 20% by allowing businesses to fire workers aged 26 and under after less than two years...
...physicists are seeking to determine if Coulomb's Law-which asserts that electrons have no mass and that the force of attraction between two particles varies inversely as the square of the distance between them-holds true at distances as small as 10 to the negative 15 centimeters...
...large-scale desalinization and other projects that may grow out of cooperative federal-state planning under the new law-which provides matching grants to states over ten years-will not produce results for years. Meanwhile, Johnson promised federal help to parched regions. Then he produced a report from his Water Resources Council, which contained the grim reminder that "the most immediate, lowest cost solution to a rapidly dwindling supply is drastically curtailed consumption...
...Webster Parish, La., Negro Joe Kirk tried unsuccessfully four times to register. On his fourth try, the registrar invoked a proposed Louisiana law-which was not really passed until five months later-disqualifying parents of illegitimate children. Testified Kirk at a commission hearing: "She asked did I have any illegitimate children. I said, 'Not as I knows of. If I has, I hasn't been accused of.' She says, 'You are a damned liar.' I just smiled; I could still give the smile. Then she said, 'I know you were going to tell...
...Stirrings. Now that the FBI was officially under way on the all-out loyalty check, a certain uneasiness began to stir in Government offices and at least part of the nation's press. The case of the State Department employees seemed to reverse the process of Anglo-Saxon law-which assumes that the accused is innocent until proved guilty. It seemed to violate the spirit, if not the letter, of their constitutional rights. Also, the ten had apparently been convicted of disloyalty on mere "derogatory information," which was the tool of a police state and not a democracy...