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Fabius is no stranger to controversy. In March 1983 he was promoted from Budget Minister, a junior position in the French Cabinet, to head of the Ministry for Industry and Research. His impact was immediate: he began to redirect large government subsidies away from such loss-making nationalized industries as steel, shipbuilding and coal toward new high-technology enterprises. When the government announced plans to eliminate 25,000 of the 90,000 jobs in the steel industry by 1987, ugly riots erupted in Lorraine...
...these flamboyant figures happened to be in Washington last week just after the Senate voted overwhelmingly to cut aid to anti-Sandinista contra rebels from an appropriations bill. Their presence was a dramatic indicator of how events beyond the Administration's control could begin to conspire to redirect U.S. policy in Central America...
...Presbyterians, was the odds-on favorite for the post of Stated Clerk (chief administrator). But on the fourth round of voting, Dark Horse James E. Andrews, 55, a droll, self-deprecating minister reared in Whittenburg, Texas, emerged in an astonishing upset as the man who will try to redirect the declining fortunes of the Presbyterian Church over the next four years...
There are, of 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...
Yesterday's statement published in The Crimson described such behavior as dangerous and conducive to violence and hatred, suggesting that responsible fans redirect this "misguided support to more constructive forms...