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...very existence of the Fifth Republic was threatened as unions called crippling strikes and students took to the barricades. Now that most stable element of French society-the small businessman-is beginning to vent his violent discontent. In recent weeks, shopkeepers have paraded through Paris, burned tax forms in Lyon, fought police in Morlaix. In Nice, they refused to pay increased gas and electricity rates. Capitalizing on the discontent, the Communist daily L'Humanite has sided with the petit bourgeois tradesman against "the monopolistic powers...
...other Europeans. Airline offices, with their posters showing faraway places, have taken over the Champs-Elysées, and last week the press announced that a new airbus treaty would be signed with Germany. It is no longer unusual to find a barber in Antibes or a salesgirl in Lyon who has visited the U.S. ?or anywhere else?as a tourist. Practically everyone, it seems, has made a summertime visit to the Spanish coast, where villas rent for a fraction of the price they command on the Riviera. Politics, which not so long ago determined whether fresh milk was available...
...between the often hostile progressive and conservative camps. Like the Pope, he tends to be conservative theologically, but he is far less rigid than the reactionary Cicognani. Although the son of a wealthy landowner, Villot was known as a champion of "the church of the poor" while Archbishop of Lyon and had frequent and cordial contacts with many dissident groups, including the French worker-priest movement...
Thursday, March 27 THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS. 9-11:10 p.m.). A seedy ex-priest turned tourist guide (Richard Burton) suffers Deborah Kerr, Ava Gardner and Sue Lyon in Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana...
...these challenges and save Paris from choking to death, De Gaulle last week called for a national referendum this spring on his plans to increase regional power. In preparation for the vote, Gaullist planners propose to split France into 21 "economic regions" centered around eight major provincial centers: Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nantes, Strasbourg, Lille and Nancy-Metz...