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...franc. Fellow Socialists have groaned about his stringent austerity program, designed to bring the soaring foreign trade deficit under control and to curb France's 8.5% inflation. Students, shopkeepers and even policemen took to the streets last spring to vent their displeasure with the policies of his two-year-old government. His approval rating has plunged from 50% to 35% in the past year. Last week the President endured another barrage of criticism, this time self-inflicted...
...happening? One place to ask is your local cable company. Seven days a week, 24 hours a day, MTV, the two-year-old Warner Amex channel, beams rock-'n'-roll videotapes into 14 million homes across the nation. The tapes, from established stars like the Rolling Stones to hopefuls like the Fixx, are offered free by recording companies in return for air play. Their impact has gone far beyond promotional gimmickry. Says PolyGram's Kiernan, whose group Def Leppard went platinum after TV exposure: "You can feel the sales right away...
...shake up statehouses. She was a Florida beach bunny who believed, Maas writes, that appearances were "what counted, for sure." She learned about skin-deep notions the hard way. Marie faked pregnancy to marry a handsome boxer; he turned out to be an alcoholic wife beater. Then her two-year-old son nearly died of a lung infection...
...spontaneous chorus of O Canada-an unfamiliar sound at Churchill Downs. Not since 1964 (Northern Dancer) had a horse bred in Canada won the Kentucky Derby, and he is the first winner to prepare successfully at the Arkansas Derby in Hot Springs. Canada's best two-year-old in 1982, Sunny's Halo won that one easily just three weeks before his victory in Louisville...
...Republicans had equally bad luck with the choice they made at the Cow Palace in 1964: Barry Goldwater. This time 5,242 delegates and alternates, along with some 20,000 members of the press and campaign staffers, will see if a winner can be picked at the nearly two-year-old Moscone Convention Center. The weeklong party, scheduled to begin July 16, 1984, will cost the city nearly $8 million and will bring in more than $36 million, according to the estimates of city officials...