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...youthful Frenchmen were careering jubilantly through the streets of Paris, trailing red flags from their cars and chanting, "We've won! We've won!" Standing in the chill spring rain at the Place de la Bastille, others laughingly shouted, "Mitterrand, give us some sun!" Even as a joke, that demand was a measure of the Impossible hopes raised by French President François Mitterrand's election victory two years ago, a historic occasion that brought to an end 23 years of conservative rule...
Last week, though, neither Mitterrand nor his ruling Socialist Party observed the second anniversary of his mandate with so much as a public toast or official reference. Any celebrations, in fact, would have been unseemly in the face of widespread disillusionment in France that, under the pressure of economic austerity, is deepening into a testy, resentful mood. On this year's rainy May 10, the youths on the streets were students protesting education reforms. Instead of red flags and roses, they carried anti-government placards and, occasionally, crowbars to use against riot police...
...Soviet move as offering promise for a U.S.-Soviet missile agreement this year. British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym described Andropov's remarks as "a step in the right direction. It is a very modest move; they are still taking a very hard line." French President François Mitterrand reaffirmed his nation's determination to be excluded from the Geneva talks. Said he: "This Soviet demand is very old. I will remain deaf." The Paris daily Le Monde headlined the Andropov announcement with a question: CONCESSION OR PROPAGANDA? The paper's assessment: probably propaganda...
First France's Socialist government outraged the country by decreeing this spring that vacationers could each spend no more than about $425 abroad. Thousands of French travel agents took to the streets for banner-waving protests that helped force the government to ease the restriction. Now President Francois Mitterrand's Cabinet has raised outcries by proposing a ban on slot machines. The move, which the French National Assembly is expected to approve by midsummer, also puts a five-game limit on the number of turns that can be won on video games and pinball machines. Pouted one newspaper...
Ironically, the French government itself triggered the slot-machine boom and is among its biggest beneficiaries. French slots had long been outlawed and confined to the back rooms of seedy bars until December 1981, when the Mitterrand Administration tacitly legalized them by placing a $714 annual tax on each machine. The number of slots quickly exploded from 10,000 to 30,000 by the end of last year. An additional 25,000 were installed in the first three months of 1983 alone. Paris' estimated tax take from the machines is now running at an annual rate of some...