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...accommodation. At Poland's Tenth Communist Party Congress last summer, Jaruzelski unveiled a plan for a national "consultative council" to advise the government on economic and social policy. The body is to include leaders of the country's powerful Roman Catholic Church and politically moderate intellectuals. Two weeks ago, Premier Zbigniew Messner took the unprecedented step of withdrawing a piece of economic legislation from parliament for revisions after it had been publicly criticized as a blatant attempt by bureaucrats to undermine proposed economic reforms that Jaruzelski had originally introduced...
Minitel is not all digitized gossip. Farmers use it to track weather reports and commodity prices. Pharmacists order drugs, investors check stock portfolios, and real estate agents post listings. Collectors sell antique furniture, rare coins and secondhand fur coats. Jacques Toubon, leader of Premier Jacques Chirac's Rassemblement pour la Republique party, invited voters last August to pose questions to him via Minitel and drew thousands of responses...
...owned Renault. Coming just two months after a wave of bombings in crowded commercial centers across Paris killed eleven and injured more than 160, the shooting of Besse outside his home last week shocked and saddened the nation. On Friday 2,000 mourners, headed by President Francois Mitterrand and Premier Jacques Chirac, attended a funeral service for the slain executive at the Hotel des Invalides, the site of Napoleon's tomb...
Chirac immediately rushed to the scene when he learned of the shooting. Ringed by scores of club-wielding police, the Premier expressed shock at "this bestial assassination." President Mitterrand, who was visiting the West African state of Burkina Faso, said France had "lost a No. 1" in the death of Besse, and he declared that "all our forces must unite against terrorism, without flinching and without compromise...
When former Premier Aldo Moro was kidnaped in 1978 by Red Brigades terrorists and held hostage against the release of 13 imprisoned brigatisti, Italy was convulsed with shock and alarm. The ruling Christian Democratic Party took a hard line on negotiating for his release, and 54 days later Moro's dead body was found in the back of a red Renault...