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...French television, which is vastly inferior to that in neighboring countries. "People are fleeing their homes in search of entertainment," says Daniel Toscan du Plantier, president of Gaumont, the country's biggest film conglomerate. "Everyone knows that our television is the most boring in the world. The Socialist government has programmed intellectual talk shows for Saturday night at 8:30. Even Socialist countries in Eastern Europe wouldn't dream of doing that. There would be riots in the streets...
...Morses were uprooted yet again in December 1965, this time by soldiers of Socialist Dictator Ne Win. The night the order came, 600 Lisu packed the thatch-roofed church to hear the family patriarch, then 67, read from Matthew 10: 23: "When they persecute you in one town, flee for the next; for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the son of man comes...
...results to increase the margin of victory. The P.R.I.'s defenders respond that the system is "evolutionary," indirectly reflecting the will of the majority through an internal party consensus. Still, many Mexicans are deeply cynical about the process. Says Pablo Gómez, secretary-general of the United Socialist Party of Mexico (P.S.U.M.), which won third place with 3.7% of the votes last July: "There are a million cracks in the P.R.I., and it is burning itself...
First came an extraordinary confidential letter from the top army commander to France's military leadership, leaked last week to Le Matin, a usually pro-government daily. Proposed cuts in defense spending by Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government, wrote General Jean Delaunay, would eliminate more than 30,000 troops from the 314,000-man army, leading to a force "weakened in its structure, aging in its equipment and wounded in its morale." Then came other leaked statements by the air force and navy chiefs of staff, revealing what they said were still secret government studies of making major...
FRANCE. Despite skepticism inside the country and abroad, the Socialist government's decision to impose price and wage controls last June has been "a sort of success," in the view of Jean-Marie Chevalier, professor of economics at the University of Paris Nord. As a result, he was less pessimistic about the French economy than he was six months ago, now predicting a growth rate of about 1% for 1983 along with a continuing fall in inflation. The rate of price rise in the economy has already been slowed from 12% to 9.8% during 1982, and Chevalier expects further...