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...Charles de Gaulle. But unlike the 1968 rioters, who were engaged in an ideological battle against "bourgeois society," this year's protesters had a strong economic motive. With nearly 30% of those ages 18 to 25 unemployed, the French young increasingly view a college diploma as the surest passport, perhaps the only passport, to a good job and a secure future. Many felt that the Chirac proposals would undermine what is meant to be an egalitarian educational system by making it more difficult for some to enter college and thus eventually to win good-paying jobs. Said a student protest...
...true. Quad residents must carry everything with them to the river for fear of having to make a second trip. Consequently, their bookbags are very heavy, insuring a daily upper-body work out. Just a few of the items a Quadling must carry on his voyage downwind: books, pens, passport, travelers checks, sleeping bag, English-Riverese/Riverese-English dictionary, 110v/220v electrical converter, Lomotil and distilled water...
...Sunday Times said Hindawi traveled on a Syrian service passport using the name Izzam Shara. It said that on an earlier trip to Britain, Hindawi used a passport that was signed by Andrew Balfour, then Britain's vice-consul in Damascus...
...paper quoted Balfour, now stationed in Dubai, as saying, "It's very much accepted practice if one government gives a note to another saying that this is Joe Soap's official passport, we take their word for it and issue a visa...
Howe said in his announcement to the House of Commons that the evidence against Syria included testimony that Hindawi carried an official Syrian passport and met with the Syrian ambassador on the day the bomb was found...