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PARIS: The stunning victory by Lionel Jospin's Socialist Party over President Jacques Chirac's conservative coalition casts doubt over France's ability to meet the strict criteria for inclusion in a new European currency by 1999, reports Paris Bureau chief Thomas Sancton: "The questions are: Can they create new jobs? Can they stimulate consumption through raising purchasing power and at the same time meet the EU goals? Unless the Socialists' plans can be offset by tax increases -- and in France, taxes are the highest in Europe -- they are going to run up huge deficits. If they do that...
...With reporting by Thomas Sancton and Anthony Spaeth/Davos
...THOMAS SANCTON, TIME's Paris bureau chief and roving European correspondent, had no sooner returned from the World Economic Forum in Davos two weeks ago than he did a quick U-turn back to Switzerland to report and write this week's cover story on the Holocaust bank accounts and Nazi gold. It turned out to be something of a journalistic U-turn as well. "Previously my reporting in Switzerland was limited to the occasional business item," says Sancton. "Suddenly I was confronted with a Swiss story of major proportions, one with intrigue, human drama and historical scope." The tale...
...under which NATO troops would take part in tracking down and arresting suspected war criminals. "The point of these rules of the road," Holbrooke said, "is to prevent authorities from just picking up people and then seeing if the Hague tribunal has anything against them." Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton reports that NATO for its part seems ready to take a more active role in policing the Dayton police accord. "It appears that NATO is taking its earlier pledges more seriously, and is quietly giving more cooperation on such things as safe-guarding mass grave sites than it chooses...
...reluctant approval of the use of condoms to prevent the spread of the HIV virus. In a 235-page report titled "AIDS: Society in Question," the bishops conceded that condoms may be a weapon of last resort against the spread of the fatal disease. TIME Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton notes that the bishops were careful to stress teachings on the importance of monogamy within marriage and abstinence before. Of the French Catholics, Sancton notes: "They haven't been as rebellious as the Germans or the Dutch, which gives this report more weight than it might otherwise have had. This...