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...been France and its Culture Minister, Jack Lang, a longtime Yankee basher who has proclaimed, "Our destiny is not to become the vassals of an immense empire of profit." Spurred by Lang, who has gone so far as to appoint a rock-'n'-roll minister to encourage French rockers, non-French programming is limited to 40% of available air time on the state-run radio stations. But even Alain Finkelkraut, the highbrow French essayist and critic who is no friend of pop culture, concedes, "As painful as it may be for the French to bear, their rock stars just...
...province's opposition. Since then, however, newly elected governments in Manitoba, New Brunswick and Newfoundland have refused to ratify it. The holdouts argue that the accord grants Quebec special legislative powers over language and culture that other provinces do not have, and could endanger the civil rights of non-French minorities in Quebec...
...necessarily a crushing setback for the global economy, nor does it indicate a sudden decline in Reagan's persuasive powers. Mitterrand probably was at least partly playing to the potent French farm vote in preparation for parliamentary elections next year, and it would be useless for any non-French politician to try to talk him out of that. All the same, the impasse raises a disquieting question about economic summits. One of the original reasons for holding the meetings was supposed to be that the problems of coordinating an interdependent global economy were too important to be left to technicians...
...Paris this year. This was partly because of its iconoclastic view of the title character, partly because it invests Robespierre with a complex intelligence that makes him more sympathetic than history generally has him. In a sense, though, that controversy is the least important aspect of the film for non-French viewers, who can afford a certain objectivity about another country's heroes and antiheroes. They can see the principal figures as Director Wajda does, not so much in a historical landscape as in a moral one that has powerful modern relevance...
...foreign shareholdings: CII-Honeywell Bull (47% U.S.-owned), International Telephone and Telegraph Corp.'s French subsidiaries (99% U.S.-owned) and Roussel Uclaf Pharmaceuticals (57% West German-owned). The government will soon begin special negotiations with these firms on the terms of their eventual takeover. In general, said Mauroy, non-French shareholders would have a choice of cashing in now, selling their assets to the state next fall, or retaining a stake in the Socialist experiment. The announcement caused no undue panic: the French stock exchange actually posted a 2.2% gain following Mauroy's speech...