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Bernard Hanon, the chairman of the board of Renault, the nationally owned French automaker, was sleeping at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City two weeks ago when the ax fell. At 4 a.m. an aide called from Paris to read him a front- page article from the pro-Socialist daily Le Matin. The paper announced that Hanon, 53, would soon be replaced by Georges Besse, 57, chairman of the Pechiney state-owned aluminum conglomerate. Shocked and angry, Hanon caught the next Concorde back to Paris. Summoned to Premier Laurent Fabius' office early last week, Hanon was forced to resign...
...mainly made up of caldoches, into the streets of Noumea, where they hurled rocks and bottles at police. Tensions increased the next day when at least 100 gendarmes surrounded a farmhouse near La Foa, 55 miles northwest of the capital. There, Eloi Machoro, a leader of the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front, a militant Separatist party, and 50 of his followers were gathered. In a dawn raid, Machoro and one of his aides, Marcel Nornaro, were killed. Jean-Marie Tjibaou, the president of a provisional Kanak government formed last month by the Liberation Front, charged that Machoro had been "assassinated...
...Chevalier, a professor of economics at the University of Paris Nord, finds his country's economy slowly improving but with great difficulty. Last year, he observed, was the third year since World War II that real personal disposable income declined in France. The others were 1980 and 1982. The Socialist government of President Francois Mitterrand, he said, is still paying for the illfated attempt to spend its way out of recession during its first year of power, in 1981. The gross national product grew by 1.5% last year, and Chevalier expects it to be just 1.1% in 1985. One reward...
...special "treaty of association." The proposal was a compromise over a vexing issue: although the Kanaks were the original inhabitants of the territory, 930 miles east of Australia, they represent only 42.5% of the current population of 145,000. In their fight for independence, the militant Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front boycotted territorial elections last November and set up roadblocks throughout most of New Caledonia. That show of defiance triggered bloody confrontations that left the island in a virtual state of siege...
...plan would lead to a Kanak takeover. Pisani declared a state of emergency throughout the territory, including a dawn-to-dusk curfew. In Paris, where Premier Laurent Fabius dispatched 1,000 fresh troops to New Caledonia, a political uproar was brewing. Right-wing opponents of President Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government joined the island's French community in denouncing the Pisani plan...