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...voters. He began hammering on issues like law- and-order and the fight against the legacy of socialism. Now Chirac must achieve something in the office he has sought so eagerly for so long. Most important, he must address unemployment. It is a stubborn problem: France has recovered from the global recession of the late 1980s and early '90s much more slowly than the U.S. or most of its European neighbors. Having automated heavily in the '80s, moreover, France has a high level of structural unemployment that is aggravated by rigid labor laws and an expensive social welfare system. Chirac...
...little more than 88 yen and 1.36 marks (it fetched 238 yen and 2.94 marks in 1985); so far this year, the dollar has skidded 9% against both the yen and the mark. But the dollar's troubles were only part of the turmoil: the British pound, the French franc and the Italian lira also tumbled, and the Mexican peso resumed its free fall until the country's harsh new austerity plan led to a rebound. On top of that, governments were forced to devalue the Spanish peseta, the Portuguese escudo and the Brazilian real...
...France's counterintelligence service, the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DST), had been tracking the spying since 1992, according to Le Monde. A female CIA officer and her male partner first tried to bribe a member of parliament with 500-franc notes to reveal France's negotiating position on world-trade talks, when Washington was pressing Paris to lower agricultural subsidies and open its television-broadcast market to U.S. programs. Another senior official in the Ministry of Communications was offered cash for intelligence on telecommunications and audiovisual policy. A technician for France-Telecom, the French telephone network, was also recruited...
...adhere to the separatist idea. He ends by writing: "[The PQ's] hope is that Quebecers won't catch on to their plan, will be manipulated by their propaganda and will be catapulted into economic and political disarray so that Parizeau can get his face painted on a 20-franc bill...
These questions seem almost immaterial to Parizeau and to the PQ. Their hope is that Quebecers won't catch on to their plan, will be by their propaganda, and will be catapulted into economic, end political disarray so that Parizeau can get his face painted on a 20-franc bill...