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To: longnshort who wrote (283461)	4/10/2006 4:35:43 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572207

Re: ...but with summer break now only about two months away, the government knows only too well that the students as well as their parents and grandparents will want to head off for their traditional four weeks summer holiday. The government counts on this sacrosanct tradition to bring life in France back to normal. LOL... Don't bet on it! Keep in mind that France's nonwhite ghettoes can't afford to share in the "four-week summer holiday tradition". Ghetto nonwhite youths are stuck to their derelict apartment blocks 12 months a year... It'll take another bavure policière --police blunder-- to start the whole October/November '05 mayhem anew! As far as ghetto unrest is concerned, the rescindment of the ill-fated CPE has drawn France back to square one. France's --and Europe's-- challenge is to emulate LBJ's Great Society scheme in much more adverse and deteriorated economic circumstances, that is, with zero GDP growth and 10% unemployment: Message 21851582 Gus