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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday May 16,19bb Mitterrand selects june for parliamentary voting Paris apr president Francois Mitterrand Dis solved inc a Lional ask ably an saturday and announced thai Pailiang unitary elections will be held june 5 and june 12. Mitterrand made the announcement in a nationwide television address. Mill errand said he made the decision Afler his new Premier Michel Ricard. Informed him thai despite his efforts he did nol believe he could bring together a solid and a Iahlo majority Ihal ail governments need to carry out thai r programs  Ricard said Friday he had sought support for his a photo Mitterrand Annon acts the dissolution of Ilic National in inc Nalion saturday in i to Iddins. Government from centrist in the 577-seat Assembly and received a negative response. In his three minute address Mitterrand deplored the fact that the opening to the Center that 1 sought could not be brought about to inc extent that i wished. Therefore it was my duty to draw the appropriate conclusions. A few seconds ago i signed a decree Dis solving the National  he said the two round election would be held on the first and second sundays of june. Mitterrand was re elected to a second term May 8 and appointed Ricard his Premier after conservative Premier Jacques Chirac who had run against Mitter Rand for president resigned. According loan opinion poll to be published Sun Day in the Roumal do Dimanche. 47 percent of the French favored dissolution of the Assembly while 2g percent opposed dissolution. The poll indicated that the socialist the largest party in France would get 4 percent of the vote 24 percent would go to the Neo gaullist rally for the re Public and is percent would go to the Center right Union for French democracy. The rest of he Vole would go to minor parties on the left and the right the poll indicated. Nearly 20 percent of those polled said they would nol vote. Former president Valery Giscard d Estwing a prom in enl  Leader told Mitterrand earlier that he should Convene the Assembly before deciding on dissolution. Giscard said in a letter to Mitterrand the Union should come after a serious discussion on what is no Ible and who ii is  he said he opposed dissolution for iwo reasons. The French now Wilt have to vote five limes in is months in various elections which Giscard described As great Wasle of time and  he also said that the Central problem facing the country was How to get the icel and the right to work together How can we achieve this if the first decision be fore any attempt to wort together is to Send the iwo Camps fare to lace against each other in every electoral District in  Mitterrand acted six Days after winning a second seven year term with 54 percent of the Vole. He also dissolved the Assembly after winning his first term in 1981 and was rewarded with a Victory by the socialists in the legislative elections that followed. The last dissolution before Hal was pronounced by Charles de Caully on May to 1968. After the student uprising in Paris. France launches Small sub Cherbo Urci. France a France launched the world s smallest nuclear powered attack submarine saturday inc amyl Hyst which will be operational in 1991, Canadian government and military officials joined French dignitaries to watch the launching. Canada May eventually Purchase the submarine. Jacques Chevallier a top defense ministry official presided Over the ceremony. The manufacturers of the submarine Cherbourg Arsenal describe it As the world s smallest nuclear pow Rcd vessel. It measures 243 feet Long and 23 feel wide and weighs 2,400 tons. The amethyst a has Speed of Al least 25 knots and can operate at Depths up to 984 feet. It carries a Crew of 66. The manufacturers said the submarine carries Torpe does and anti ship exec cd missiles. The amethyst a carries state of the Art electronic and computer systems. It is designed lobe As hydrodynamic As possible and More silent than its predecessors. The canadians have said they plan to use submarines of this Type to patrol vast areas in the Arctic. They also Are  a British nuclear attack submarine the Trafalgar which is larger than the amethyst a. 3 million threatened with starvation in Vietnam Bangkok Thailand Nytz As Many As 3 million people in Northern Vietnam May be facing starvation according to Hanoi s official radio and to reports front International Aid organizations thai have been asked for emergency food supplies. Hanoi s Domestic radio service said acute Nee shortages in Many localities end starvation in a son bind province South of the capital were forcing the authorities to Oil Back on Nee rations to government employees including members of the military. People Are being told to Plant Quick growing vegetables to slave off famine in Iii country of 6j million. Aussies Victory Hopes Boomerang in throwers cup Zarooga Australia a a team . Boomerang throwers saturday beat the austra lians Al their own game scoring a comprehensive Victory in the even nation Bicentennial world Boomerang cup. Led by Chet Snouffer of Delaware Ohio inc United states finished first with 125 Points after three rounds of Competition throwing the wooden Hunting stick used for centuries by australian aborigines. Australia finished in second place with 112,75 Points and France third with 103  Germany was fourth with 73.25 Points Switzerland was fifth with 48,25 Holland was sixth with 45 and Japan was seventh with 38.75, Effort to oust Premier of Yugoslavia fails Belgrade Yugoslavia a communist Premier Branko Mikulic on saturday survived Calls fair his resignation from Yugoslavia s most westernized republics when lawmakers rejected their plan to topple his government. In a 75-Mimile speech to inc Federal Assem Bly Yugoslavia s National parliament Mikulic denounced Slovenia and Croatia tic two most advanced of Yugoslavia s sin republics for de manding a Vole of no Confidence in his administration. The parliament Ihen held separate closed de Bates in us iwo Chambers the Federal chamber and the chamber of republics and provinces. Each chamber voted against even calling a vote on the slovenian and croatian proposals for a no Confidence motion the Tan Jug news Agency said if Mikulic had been vol cd out of office it would have been the first such Vole against a communist government anywhere in Eastern Europe. Hungarian intellectuals form new Trade Union Budapest Hungary a scientists educators and other intellectuals saturday formed communist Hungary s first new Trade Union in if nol known whether the democratic Union of scientific workers would be Independent of the government approved Union Struc Ture said a participant who spoke on condition of  certainly cannot compare the Union a French Sailor watches the bunching of the ame Hysle saturday in ton Harbor of Cherbourg in Western Fence. La ilk of Civ a. A. Aeration was banned in 19b1. The participant said about 400 pc Ojile at tended the founding session and elected a 59 member steering Commilles. 24 injured when jetliner hits heavy turbulence Sydney Australia a a Boeing 747 travelling from san Francisco win 172 Passen Gers hit heavy air turbulence in route to Sydney 5n sunday injuring 22 passengers and two Crew members officials  of the victims aboard the Qantas air ways flight suffered neck injuries and abrasions  
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