PARIS- Beginning of Post-de Gaulle Era

December 14, 1968 been admitted into the movement under pressurs the present crisis mains rooted in the fact that the universities have failed to maintain a proper teacher-student ratio, to modernise the courses, and to provide a truly academic or professional orientation ON the face of things, General de Gaulle has once again squared the circle. Ten days ago the franc was dropping hour by hour in the currency markets of the Western world. An estimated four thousand million dollars worth of francs had left the country for Germany, Switzerland or the United States since the month of June. France's fabled gold reserves were no longer sufficient to stop the haemorrhage. Economic experts traded informed guesses on whether the expected devaluation would be by 7, 10 or 15 per cent.