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...attitude gone down well with the rank and file in France. A number of town and city councils, either dominated by or including Communist members, have passed resolutions backing Solidarity. In the giant 2.3 million strong Communist-led Confédération Générale du Travail (C.G.T.), at least twelve of 40 member unions defied instructions to boycott pro-Solidarity demonstrations...
Signs of discontent are already evident. Leftist unions have been stepping up their demands of the government. The Communist-led Confédération Générale du Travail, for example, is holding out for an immediate reduction in the work week from 40 hours to 38; Mitterrand is offering 39. A crowd of 3,000 ecologists staged a violent demonstration two weeks ago at Golfech, in southwestern France, to charge Mitterrand with reneging on his campaign pledge to curtail new nuclear-plant construction...
...nightmare. Recently, she wrote to her family in Viet Nam: "My dear mother, don't think about coming by sea. Escape or not, you surely will be dead, but I think it's better to be dead in Viet Nam. For me, I will never forget my travail on the sea. Don't follow me, my dear mother...
...beginning to fade. Inaugurating France's new, high-speed train last week (see SCIENCE), he was greeted with polite applause but no great enthusiasm. Hecklers bearing placards at stations along the way included members of the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail, a union that enjoys close links to the Socialist Party. Their message: workers still expect Mitterrand to deliver on his promise of lowering unemployment and reducing the work week to 35 hours. The leftist press too has begun to be concerned that Mitterrand's ideological commitments may be getting...
...into the quality of command if a President is going to prevail. That entails both taking political risks and abandoning the search for perfect solutions. "The White House is always filled with people with strong wills," explains Harlow. "They get along beautifully in success. But when they get into travail, these hard heads believe they are the only ones with the right answers, and that can end up in an internal struggle...