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- <title>
- Nov. 26, 1990: World Notes:France
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Nov. 26, 1990 The Junk Mail Explosion!
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 51
- World Notes
- FRANCE
- Back into The Streets
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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