France Faces Deep Economic Crisis Amid Strikes and Decline
France endures a severe economic downturn as imports rise and exports fall, with strikes sparked by students and sustained by wage and unemployment grievances. Officials estimate weekly losses near 2 billion while de Gaulle weighs wage hikes and tariff cuts amid Kennedy Round pressures.
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Paris
France
Europe
Charles de Gaulle
Pierre Uri
de Gaulle
Britain
June in the eyes of poets and playful notes
A lighthearted survey of June topics from poets and cultural quirks to holidays and quirky weeks. The piece riffs on June bugs, national observances, and humorous anecdotes about a Rotary Club secretary and a father teaching his son about the sun set trick.
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Frank Drumheller
Charleston
Call for National Mobilization on Solidarity Day
Bayard Rustin, national coordinator of the Poor People's Campaign, called for a June 19 Solidarity Day in Washington a massive nonviolent demonstration by hundreds of thousands to demand that Congress and the administration redeem the American promise. The document lists durable goals including one million federally financed public works jobs, housing expansion, repeal of punitive welfare rules, extending NLRA protections to farm workers, and restoring antipoverty education and employment funding.
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New York Times Service
Washington
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Bayard Rustin
Rustin
Austin
Congress
Qustin
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