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Evolution & Revolution. Resentment against the French mainland (which Corsicans still call le continent) is nearly as keen as that against the repatriates. Complains Jean Zuccarelli, 33, a philosophy teacher turned farmer: "France can provide irrigation for Communist countries, can pour aid into North Africa, but hasn't enough money to help Corsica." This is not quite true: Somivac, the French-supported farm agency, has built six dams and developed 104 farms in the past six years at a cost to Paris of some $20 million. In an effort to placate the locals, Somivac last week nervously assigned four additional...
Corsica's angry natives want more than tourism. "We want autonomy," says Philosopher-Farmer Zuccarelli, "with our own Parliament and our own budget." A delegation of Corsican officials, recently returned from a ten-day tour of autonomous Sicily and Sardinia (which still retain ties with Italy), felt the same. "Autonomy is the essential ingredient," said one. "This is not just evolution, but revolution," said another. Paris doubtless was recalling the words of Corsica's favorite son. Regarding Corsican separatism, Napoleon himself took a realistic view: "All these notions of national independence for a little island like Corsica!" exclaimed...
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