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Even in the good years, Western Europe exploited and ignored its minorities, but the long-running recession seems to have stirred a particularly malignant demon in the Continent's psyche. In France last month, a dispute over extensive layoffs at a Peugeot factory outside Paris degenerated into three days of racial violence that left 120 people injured. The clashes pitted striking workers (mostly immigrants) against those still holding jobs (mostly Frenchmen). More than 20 immigrants have been killed or wounded in other incidents in France in the past year. At least seven, including a ten-year-old boy, were...
...course, many Europeans committed to promoting racial understanding. Some have even begun to redirect national policies. France's Socialist government has cracked down heavily on illegal immigration, but it has also given priority to job training and housing programs for minorities. To ease the pain of the Peugeot layoffs, for instance, authorities are considering a program of retraining for workers who choose to stay in France and payments-perhaps as much as $4,700 each-to those who choose repatriation. Britain's Conservative government, whose anti-immigration policies have been denounced as "oppressive" by its Labor Party opponents...
...precautions were all for naught. As Heineken was leaving his office early one evening last week, three masked men suddenly jumped on him and dragged him toward an orange Peugeot minivan. When Chauffeur Ab Doderer, 57, leaped out of his bulletproof Cadillac to save his boss, he too was beaten and abducted. Coolly following a well-rehearsed plan, the criminals whizzed through downtown Amsterdam, switched to a Citroen getaway car and vanished into the night. Police later discovered bloodstains on the deserted van and two Uzi submachine guns near...
...work-sharing plan may actually be worsening France's economic problems. One official estimate indicates that the measures lowered France's 1982 growth rate by .2%, to 1.7%, and accounted for .6% of its 11.9% inflation. Peugeot, the country's second largest automobile manufacturer, lost about $325 million last year, and blames the reduction in hours for some of that deficit. Peugeot said the scheme added $200 million to its labor bill last year, because the company has been getting less work performed even though wages went up some...
...melancholy narrator in his late thirties is unwillingly reunited with Carmel Seaver, an ultra-precocious 17-year-old who slept with him when she was thirteen and he was thirty-three, and who drives him all over town in daddy's birthday present to her, a telephone equipped Peugeot...