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"BLACK TUESDAY" HITS FRANCE
A one-day strike by 5m public sectoz
employees has brought French railways,
buses, schools, post offices and othez
services to a near standstill.
Trade unions called the stoppage, the
biggest in almost a decade, to protest
against the government's pay controls.
Thousands of British tourists have had
their travel plans wrecked b= the 24-
hour strikj.
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