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...Spanish government also hoped that President François Mitterrand's new Socialist government would track down and extradite ETA terrorists taking refuge on French soil. Previous French governments were reluctant to cooperate, fearing that some of the people requested by the Spanish might be political dissidents, not terrorists. Last week French officials continued to be wary. Gaston Defferre, the Interior Minister, has gone so far as to declare that the war against the ETA in Spain is "political." Despite continuing pressure from Madrid, the French have still not agreed to the extradition proposal...
George Bush, asked Richard Burton for an Englishman's view of monarchy and was told that Burton was Welsh and, coming from those aristocrats of labor, the miners, considered himself a left-wing socialist but was so disillusioned by all politics that he might even become a monarchist. There were such depths of irony in this answer that Brokaw prudently chose not to explore it further. The British, as listeners were constantly told, still like and look up to the monarchy. But the reporting conveyed a change in attitude since the last big royal wedding, of Elizabeth and Philip...
...refusing to cooperate with one such committee and though the sentence was only for contempt of court, the time in prison irrevocably destroyed his health. Then, he was out again, only to be hauled in front of more committees. Hammett had always claimed to be a Marxist and a Socialist--and put no faith in the Fascism that increasingly crept into Stalin's Russia. But such subtleties were lost on the zealots. Marxism was considered synonymous with godless, atheist Ivans. The labor movements of the '20s and '30s simply did not translate...
NATIONALIZATIONS. Most of the remaining private banks, some 200 in all, will come under direct state control as soon as the enabling legislation goes to the Assembly in the fall. The Socialists will move to take over eleven major industrial groups, including the Dassault-Breguet aviation conglomerate, two steel companies, two chemical conglomerates, two high-technology firms and an electronics corporation. Three companies would be exempted from peremptory nationalization because of their significant foreign shareholdings: CII-Honeywell Bull (47% U.S.-owned), International Telephone and Telegraph Corp.'s French subsidiaries (99% U.S.-owned) and Roussel Uclaf Pharmaceuticals (57% West German...
...There are many nuances in the market. Russian enamel is soft because a major American buyer is out of the market. Nineteenth century Dutch painting is off because of the prospects of a Socialist-dominated government in Holland, which has depressed demand from Dutch citizens...