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...airliner tragedy is one of the thorniest problems yet faced by the pro-Moscow French Communists in their uneasy 28-month alliance with the Socialist-dominated government of President FrançMitterrand -and one that has again raised speculation that the Communists ultimately will leave or be invited out of the government. In past months the party has disagreed with its coalition partner on a variety of issues, from the government's strong support for NATO's plan to deploy intermediate-range missiles in Western Europe to French intervention in Chad. The attacks, however, tended to become muted...
...death of 269 passengers and crew on board the South Korean airliner was a different matter: the P.C.F.'s response placed the party not only at odds with the Mitterrand government, which voiced outrage over the incident, but also threatened to alienate many members, who in recent years have become increasingly disillusioned with the party's policies...
Marchais's words were an open indication of the increasing strain between the French Communists' allegiance to Moscow and their loyalty to the Mitterrand government. "Pro-Sovietism is like an old shell that won't break off," said a Parisian woman who is married to a Communist journalist. "Party leaders are incapable of telling the U.S.S.R. to go to hell when they [the Soviets] do outrageous things...
French President Francois Mitterrand's plan to cut his country's unemployment rate seemed engagingly simple. If employees worked fewer hours, jobs could be spread among more people. Mitterrand's Socialist administration has thus pared France's 40-hour work week to 39 hours since taking office more than two years ago, and it plans to trim it to 35 hours by 1985. The government has also given the French a fifth week of annual vacation and has lowered the legal retirement age to 60 for workers who have labored 371/2 years...
James was the youngest of the five brothers who became financiers to all ofEurope, more powerful, certainly more perspicacious, than of the headsof state who depended on them. The Rothschild bank of France (nationalized by President Francois Mitterrand last year) was James' power base. He gleefully courted aristocracy and believed firmly in maximum ostentation, but he was also a passionately hard, meticulous worker and a militant family...