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...outright majorities in 142 constituencies and thus were elected to the Assembly without having to undergo a runoff round. By contrast, the major non-Gaullist parties all suffered setbacks. Receiving its worst drubbing in a decade, the French Left lost 1,250,000 votes to the Gaullists, watched its share of the vote decline from 45% in 1967 to 41%. If the Gaullist trend continued through the final round of balloting last weekend, De Gaulle would command some 280 seats in the 487 seat Assembly. In any case, he seemed assured of a comfortable majority...
...Communists, it was the worst showing since the 1958 elections, when De Gaulle first returned to power. Though remaining Frances second largest political party, the Communists lost 603,675 voters; their share of the total vote fell from 22.5% to 20%. The Communists' allies, the Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left, dropped 23%. This setback seriously dented the prestige of the federation's leader, François Mitterrand as a national political figure. The centrist coalition, led by Jacques Duhamel, dropped from 13% of the vote...
...crowd on Rio Branco, and for most of the country, a big cause of the current unrest is the government's arid educational policy and the rough police treatment of students protesting it. In the past three years, education's share of the national budget has dropped from 11% to 7.7% and the number of illiterate, already half the total population of 85,655,000, has slightly increased. Overcrowded Rio universities are now forced to turn away two out of three qualified applicants...
...measures will affect at least 10% of France's total imports and a far bigger share of its exports. They include ceilings on such goods from abroad as autos, trucks, electrical appliances, textiles and a number of steel products. The subsidies come in the form of more liberal government credit for manufacturers engaged in exporting and indemnities to compensate for recent increases in their wage costs. At the same time, French Finance Minister Maurice Couve de Murville moved to curb inflationary pressures at home by warning that "severe measures" would be taken against excessive price increases...
...this is our war and our year and it's different. At least different than expected or advertised. There have been war years before, in fact the classes of 1918 and 1943 which share the festivities with us today saw their class day ceremonies filled with uniforms. But then, in those days, there was a certain pride attached to the wearing of a uniform...