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- WORLD, Page 51World NotesFRANCEBack into The Streets
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- The images -- evoking the student-worker upheaval of 1968
- -- were enough to make any French government tremble: wisps of
- tear gas drifting across the Seine, helmeted riot police
- chasing stone-throwing youths in the Latin Quarter, cars set
- ablaze along the Quai d'Orsay.
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- The violence erupted in Paris last week at the end of a
- rally by 100,000 high school students. These were the children
- of the generation that took to the streets in 1968, but unlike
- their parents before them, they were not trying to change the
- world or overturn the government. They were just demanding more
- money for education.
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- Premier Michel Rocard, pressured by President Francois
- Mitterrand to buy peace with the demonstrators, allotted $900
- million, most of it earmarked for the renovation of run-down
- school buildings. Though some protesters were still unhappy,
- student representative Cecile Amar, 19, hailed it as a "great
- victory."
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