Word: localities
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More than 15 shop stewards of Local 26, the union that represents the University's dining hall workers, yesterday discussed demands they plan to present to the University during contract negotiations later this month and in June...
...Local 26 President Domenic M. Bozzotto, who has headed the union since 1981, said the University has its priorities confused and is too concerned with the money it may lose when workers call in sick...
...even two centuries later, not all of France cherishes the spirit of 1789. Counterrevolutionary commemorations are proliferating. Right-wing Catholics are organizing a huge "Mass for the Martyrs" of the revolution on Aug. 15 in the Place de la Concorde. Local governments in western France helped raise funds for a $7 million movie called Vent de Galerne, which opened last month, about the republican army's savage repression of peasant rebels in the Vendee. In Lyons a historical society is tracing the descendants of 3,000 executed in anti-Jacobin uprisings. "The bicentennial is more an occasion for mourning than...
...genocide." In 1793 General Francois Westermann had reported proudly to his government, "I have trampled the children under my horses' hooves. I have massacred the women so they will give birth to no more rebels." The new movie about the Vendee uprising, Vent de Galerne, has understandably garnered intense local support and money. Says Jean-Michel Mousset, a trucking-company owner from Ste.- Florence who put up $5,000: "In 1793 liberty, equality and fraternity was on our side, not on the side of the republicans...
...dissenting voices on both the right and the left have had little effect on the majority of 1789 commemorations. Celebrations large and small, local and national, will attract record numbers of tourists to France. If these do not mark a true festival of reconciliation, the French can still take pride in the passion they have for their history. In Lyons, Jacques Tournier, the descendant of a water carrier who was guillotined in 1793, recalls that his grandmother refused to walk past the place in the market where the execution machine stood. "Now I too avoid that spot out of respect...