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...Mitterrand's travel restrictions provoke a Juror over "liberty...
...caused more than a little irritation on the German with side and spurred a late March demand that the French clean up their act. That demand was enough to get the French goat. A third devaluation of the franc in 17 months, as called for, could only embarass the Mitterrand government politically, further ammunition for the centrist opposition claiming the Socialists were fiscally inept. More pressing would be the inflationary effects of any devaluation; some kind of austerity program would have to follow. For a government still bent on spending its way out of recession and into popularity, this...
Fixing rates among ideological antagonists is not practical; nor can it inspire currency and trade confidence. By agreeing to a compromise this month, Mitterrand put economic stability--in short, the European alliance--ahead of domestic policy. French travel agents last week, demonstrating to protest the resulting austerity measures, illustrated a final irony to the whole affair. The price of enjoying European 'interdependence' is to be literal economic shut...
Anxious to stay in the government, the Communists have made numerous concessions to Mitterrand. Party Leader Georges Marchais and his comrades on the seven-member secretariat have grudgingly accepted policies of economic austerity that have, among other things, imposed wage restraints on their predominantly working-class constituency. After Mitterrand expressed firm support for NATO's decision to deploy new missiles in Western Europe, Marchais dutifully declared that "the Communist Party has wholly adopted the policy of the French government in which we participate...
Even members of the center-right opposition admit that the four Communist ministers in Mitterrand's government have proved to be competent administrators. At weekly Cabinet meetings, the Communists usually limited their questions to matters concerning their own portfolios in the ministries of transport, health, civil service and vocational training. Says a ranking Elysée official: "They were so accommodating, so nose-to-the-grindstone that we sometimes forgot they were there." Fears that the Communists might get hold of state secrets turned out to be groundless because defense planning is not discussed in the Cabinet...