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...long abandoned by their fathers--are nothing less than outcasts in their own society. In Vietnam, for example--where estimates of the number of these "half-breeds" range from 7,000 to 20,000--an Amerasian is ineligible to attend public school, get a job, or even hold a ration card. A top official has branded them as "bad elements...
After a morning with these fowl innards, employees hit the bricks, our ration of Alex's Plus in tow, and sought suitable trades with other food merchants. It's not that we didn't have pride in our own product-we downed plenty of it, as my weight will attest-but by mid-summer fruit-shakes, pepperoni pizza, and bran muffins were a welcome relief...
...Communist Party's pro-Soviet attitude gone down well with the rank and file in France. A number of town and city councils, either dominated by or including Communist members, have passed resolutions backing Solidarity. In the giant 2.3 million strong Communist-led Confédération Générale du Travail (C.G.T.), at least twelve of 40 member unions defied instructions to boycott pro-Solidarity demonstrations...
...occasions and is now quaffed in such Jeroboam quantities that the fizz biz poppeth over. The thirst for authentic French bubbly, plus the grievous crop damage to French vines in three of the past four years, has raised prices for the real stuff* and has forced French shippers to ration the choice vintages. At Manhattan's elegant Four Seasons restaurant, for instance, a bottle of Henriot Reserve Phillippe de Rothschild 1975 now costs $110. Five years ago, a comparable bottle sold for about $60. At Jacqueline's Champagne & Wine Bar in Manhattan, a fluted glass of champagne costs...
Signs of discontent are already evident. Leftist unions have been stepping up their demands of the government. The Communist-led Confédération Générale du Travail, for example, is holding out for an immediate reduction in the work week from 40 hours to 38; Mitterrand is offering 39. A crowd of 3,000 ecologists staged a violent demonstration two weeks ago at Golfech, in southwestern France, to charge Mitterrand with reneging on his campaign pledge to curtail new nuclear-plant construction...