Word: steeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...word of Mitterrand's press conference spread through Lorraine last Wednesday, the mood turned ugly. At Longwy, site of violent steel riots in 1979 and the epicenter of last week's upheavals, some 200 young casseurs (delinquents) clashed with riot police. Soon the dingy town of 17,000 was a battleground. One young man had his hand blown off by a concussion grenade; another was hit in the face with a tear-gas canister and lost his lower lip. In the nearby town of Réhon, a gang of workers set fire to an elegant...
Back in Paris, the political battle was just beginning. Mitterrand's recent economic conservatism has placed increasing strains on his always uncomfortable coalition with France's Communists. In an often sarcastic hour-long television interview early last week, Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais called the steel plan a "bad thing" and damned the entire restructuring policy as a "tragic error" that is "doomed to fail." Marchais insisted that his party would remain in government and oppose the policy from the inside. Some high-ranking Socialists believe, however, that the Communists really want out-but will go only...
...scheduled for this week. Having abandoned the openhanded policies that got him elected, Mitterrand needs time for his new economic rigueur to work, and he must somehow retain the support of his traditional constituents on the shop floor. Back in 1981, he stood in Longwy and pledged that the steel industry would be the "spearhead" of an industrial revival in France. Harsh reality has turned that promise to ashes, but his audience that day will not let him forget it. -By John Nielsen. Reported by Jordan Bonfante/Paris and Thomas A. Sanctm/Longwy
...fatal ingestion by waterfowl of spent lead shotgun pellets that hunters scatter in marshlands. Hair, a wildlife biologist, and other environmentalists say that the lead-shot toll may be as high as 4 million ducks annually. They contend that the deaths could be avoided by switching to steel pellets. Arnett's answer: "It's not that easy." Accepting the argument of many hunters that the lighter steel pellets have less stopping power and that consequently more ducks would be injured, he has cut back on his department's research into the matter. He has even withdrawn...
...looks like an undernourished grad student as he waits for a plane at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. His gray sweater has patches on the elbows; his shoes are scuffed; his ginger hair flops over a pair of steel-framed glasses. He fidgets with a thick pile of papers that contain preliminary sketches for a new portable computer and technical details for silicon chips that will be used in machines of the late 1980s. The tag on his battered black suitcase reads "William H. Gates, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, Microsoft...