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Subject: Re: Restricting Officials to Single Terms
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Date: Sun, 21-Aug-83 01:46:23 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 21 01:46:23 1983
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Zig says:

    In France they have a very strong presidency with a seven year term.
    What this does for us is make certain that the France will be weak until
    the Socialists are voted out of office. What it does for the French, I
    don't know. Economically, they are suffering and it won't let up soon -
    and the Socialists have not even managed to combat Franglaise.

The French were in bad shape economically long before Mitterand was
elected.  The economic action take so far has not been anything like
standard socialist behavior, anyway, so  I don't think this is a good
subject to use for taking pot shots at socialism.