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Tuesday, May 13, 2003
posted by gbarto at 3:34 AM:
Let's see what the French newsheadlines are:Le Monde: Retirement Reform: A black Tuesday in France.
Transportation paralyzed, schools and offices closed, with more than 100 marches across France, the day of strikes and demonstrations against retirement reform plans unfolds with an intensity not seen since... 1995Seven years of behaving themselves was just too much.
Lower down: Saudi Arabia: Three Explosions Target Expatriates
Le Figaro: Retirement: Demonstration of Force by Unions. The only demonstration of force much known to France of late.
Libé's weblead is a "To Our Readers" about the fact that Libé won't be at your local kiosk. The unions involved in getting it there are on strike.
Ouest-France: Retirement: Mobilization of Great Intensity; Transportation Nearly Paralyzed.
So it seems, folks, that once again the fogeys are trying to relive May 1968 and everyone else too. A royal pain, though one the oh-so-popular leader of the part proposing reform deserves. Not sure about his p.m.
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