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...victory, Mitterrand has slowed down the atomic program, although he has approved plans to start two new nuclear plants this year. Mitterrand is pressing ahead despite predictions that France may not need all the electricity that the nuclear reactors could generate. To spur demand for atomic power, the state-run electric company is offering low prices to businesses that switch from oil and gas heat to electricity. Currently, petroleum accounts for 46.5% of France's total energy consumption, and nuclear reactors supply 23%. According to government projections, by the year 2000, nuclear power will provide 30% of the country...
...ulcer had been acting up and no wonder. Poland's government had initiated another smear campaign against him. This time, the authorities said, he was under investigation for currency violations. Days before, the state-run television network had played a tape recording in which he could purportedly be heard discussing a $1 million foreign bank account and bemoaning the fact that he had been passed up for a Nobel Prize last year. To relieve the pressure, Lech Walesa, leader of the now banned Solidarity movement, went off with a group of friends one day last week to hunt...
...Alexei Kosygin's largely unsuccessful effort to decentralize Soviet industry in the 1960s. It might take years before the changes could be applied outside the factories that were singled out last week. Said a Western diplomat: "Andropov is gently approaching the tricky question of how to decentralize a state-run economy...
...admitted to a hospital know enough to bring their own chopsticks, towels and soap and not to expect amenities. Example: a woman recently checked into a large, state-run hospital in Tokyo to have a thyroid tumor removed. She was able to get a semiprivate room. The sheets were changed only once a week and the bath and toilet were down the hall. Her sharpest recollection: "I hated to go to the bathroom. Scores of cockroaches were clustered there at night." Still, she said, "the care was excellent...
...network. Some 22,000 freight-service employees, including 5,000 who had job or severance guarantees, were cut from the payroll at a cost of more than $130 million. Last January, Conrail handed its unprofitable commuter service in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania over to local and state-run transportation agencies. (Amtrak, the other Government-owned railroad, continues as a long-distance passenger carrier.) In all, Conrail has slashed its work force from about 100,000 in 1976 to just under...