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When he took office last May, Socialist President François Mitterrand vowed to cease all executions, although polls show that 62% of the French people are opposed to the change. Last week, after two days of heated debate, France's National Assembly voted 363 to 117 to approve a bill that abolishes the death penalty...
...times as much fuel per passenger as a 747, the Concorde has been a money loser since its maiden flights in 1976. The British and French governments now subsidize it at a rate of roughly $90 million a year. The Socialist government of France's François Mitterrand is considering grounding the prestige plane. Officials of the two nations will open talks next month on the possibility of ending, or at least severely curtailing, Concorde passenger flights...
...Mitterrand's Socialist government moves to nationalize them...
...Rome as a fulfillment of Nostradamus' prophecy that a Pontiff would be assassinated ("Roman Pope do not approach the city which two rivers bathe/ Your blood and that of your followers will flow near this place when the rose will flower"). A rose? That had to refer to Mitterrand's election; after all, the flower is the symbol of the French Socialist Party. Within three months, Nostradamus had sold 232,000 copies...
...major conflict (World War II?), and the utilization of nuclear missiles ("After one great massing of soldiers, another greater one is prepared . . . one will see then fire in the sky coursing from a great missile"). Said Le Point: "Fear is becoming a market. One hundred days after having brought Mitterrand to power, our citizens are paying $20 a copy to shudder in horror...