Friday, May 16, 2008

May 16/17

May 16, 2008—Hundreds of thousands of French teaches and civil servants staged a one-day strike across the country on Thursday to protest government plans to cut jobs in the public sector.—NYT A12

--McCain said if elected president, he would win the Iraq war and bring most troops home by January 2013 [cutting his original 100 year deadline back by 96 years]—WSJ A1

May 17, 1968—Ignoring the objections and threats of the CGT [communist controlled trade union federation], the students start the “Long March” across Paris to the Renault works at Boulogne-Billancourt, where workers and students, despite the efforts of the CGT to keep them apart, meet. Similar meetings occur throughout the country and in some places joint committees are established. ... In Paris the Law Faculty rejects the existing consumer society... [83-84]

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