French retailers suffer as transport strike cripples holiday trade
Paris shops hotels and restaurants face steep losses as the transport strike depresses sales during the holiday season. Fauchon reports a 50 percent drop, Printemps 73 percent, while tourism occupancy and other sectors contract. Delivery, gasoline, bikes and video rentals rise as consumers cocoon at home.
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Martine Vigeral
Jean-Claude Crochard
Printemps
Francoise de Bouville
de Bouville
France
Bruno Lacroix
CNPF
National Union of Restaurant and
Peres Pledges Open Talk Chapter With Syria
Israel’s prime minister Shimon Peres promised to open another chapter with Syria and said he will appoint a reservist general to probe reports that as many as 1,000 Egyptian POWs were killed in the 1956 and 1967 wars. President Assad and Mubarak expected to meet as U S envoy Dennis Ross eyes resumed Israeli Syrian talks.
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Hosni Mubarak
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Mubarak
Egypt
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Shlomo Lahat
Tel Aviv
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Missing airliner vanishes over Russia with 97 aboard
Rescue teams scoured Russia's Far East mountains for a Tupolev 154 missing en route from Yuzhno Sakhalinsk to Khabarovsk. Eight aircraft took part in the search despite heavy snow and low clouds, 89 passengers including five children and eight crew were aboard. Rescuers believe the plane went down over land near Kopli after last contact near 50 miles offshore.
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World leader Internet hookup fizzies sparks future hope
The Hiroshima Internet dialogue linked Nelson Mandela and an aide to Jimmy Carter with Kazuhiko Nishi arranging a real time multi user video link between South Africa the United States and Japan. The broadcast drew a small turnout and uneven video and sound but sparked talks of future global video conferencing making telephone calls obsolete.
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Kazuhiko Nishi
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Nishi
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Carter
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Tiananmen Square
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