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...clear lack of inspection or punishment has inspired a small minority of smokers to ignore the ban - a lead that a growing number of their co-workers are deciding to follow," says Rémi Parola, a NSR official. "The law was effective in getting people to accept non-smoking as the legal and social norm, and that's now being slowly eroded...
...perhaps. But one look at the countless smokers bundled up outside offices in Paris suggests that the transgressors are still a relatively rare exception to the rule. If smokers become bolder about lighting up indoors, however, non-smokers may begin demanding greater action from authorities. Even Parola acknowledges that second-hand smoke levels have vastly improved since the ban went into effect, saying his group's current campaign is only aimed at improving enforcement enough to prevent a gradual return to 2006 habits...
DIED. CARLO PAROLA, 79, Italian soccer star who gained international fame for the acrobatic bicycle kick he popularized in the 1940s; in Turin, Italy...
...Committee of Action" publishes underground newspapers in Italy, France and Yugoslavia. In Italy these papers are so widely read that the police no longer arrest persons found reading them, but merely confiscate the copies with a warning. A clandestine mimeopaper, La Parola del Soldato (The Soldier's Word), is circulated among Italian occupation troops in France in collaboration with the French underground. Its aim: "union of action of all Italians ... for an immediate separate peace and for the restitution ... of freedom and independence against the Hitlero-Mussolinian oppressor...
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