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...will not greet us with prosperity; the decisions to be made will not be accepted by everyone with equal satisfaction." Even New Year's Eve, in fact, was celebrated with unusual sobriety-and without live music. Demanding overtime, the country's pop musicians refused to perform at state-run restaurants and nightclubs...
...helped Political Ally Robert Hersant get government-facilitated loans to acquire control of three Parisian newspapers, France-Soir, Le Figaro and L 'Aurore. Their combined circulation of 1.06 million makes "Citizen Hersant" the most important press magnate in France. Commercial publish must still depend on the state-run advertising agency Havas to help them contract for major advertising. Moreover, under Giscard, a bewildering catalogue of government subsidies for such publishing costs as paper, telephone and telex communications has drawn financially pressed newspapers into an ever closer dependency on the Palace. Says Roger Fressoz, editor of the outspoken satiric weekly...
Duehay said the state-run lottery "represents a major funding source that the state government has abrogated to itself...
...coverage may have seemed so much like home as not to appear novel: there stood an American correspondent, mike in hand, talking in front of the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk exactly as he might outside a struck factory in Akron. Overnight, Strike Leader Lech Walesa-whose appearances on the state-run Polish television were kept to a minimum-became a familiar American-television face. With the usual American gift for hype, Republicans trotted out Walesa's father, who lives in New Jersey but doesn't speak English, to pose for TV cameras with Ronald Reagan against the backdrop...
Intellectuals--especially social scientists--constitute another prime target. The government closed the Di Tella Institute, formerly one of Latin America's most renowned research centers for sociological studies, and most of its staff are missing or self-exiled. The state-run universities offer only a highly censored curriculum in philosophy, political science, and anthropology, and the regime is considering outlawing psychiatry and psychology. "I'm not surprised," a psychiatrist said, "They don't want people to think...