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APPROVE~ FOR RELEASE= 2007/02/09= CIA-R~P82-00850R000'100050006-9 3 . ~ i ur i APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000100050006-9 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/49: CIA-RDP82-44850R000100054406-9 FOR Urr1~iAL USE uNLY JPR5 L/8435 3 May 7.9 79 . _ TRANSLATIONS ON WESTERN EUR~PE ~FOU~ 26/79) . ~ . U. S. ,JOINT PUBLICATIONS RESEARCH SERVICE FOR OFFICIAL USC ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000100050006-9 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02149: CIA-RDP82-44850R0001000544Q6-9 . . . . . . . . . . . . I NOT~ JpRS publicaCions contain tnformation primarily from foreign newspnpers, periodicals and books, but Alao frmm ~~ws agency eransmission~ nnd broddcasCs. MaCerials �roM foreign-language snurc~s ~re translated; those from English-l~nguage sources are Cranscribed or reprinCed, wirh Che original phrASing and orher characreriseica reCained. Headlines, editorial reports, ~nd maCerial enclosed in br~ckets are supplied by JPRS. 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APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000100050006-9 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02149: CIA-RDP82-44850R0001000544Q6-9 FOR OE'~'TCIAL USE ONLY JPRS L/$435 � 3 May 1.9 79 T~ANSLATIONS ON WESTERN EUROPE (~~cro 25/79) CONTENTS � PAGE COUNTRY SECTION DENMARK Wage Pact Ma,y Foree Davaluation (VECKANS AFFAftER, 29 Mar 79) 1 FRANCL Mitterrand Future Viewed in Light of Latest Elections (Arthur Conte; PARIS MATCH, 6 Apr 79) 2 Nationa:. Economic Policy: RePlections on International Dependency ~ ( Jeun MMr~..touk; F~TriktIBLES, Jan 79 ) � . � � � � � � . � . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Civil Aeronautics Construction Industry Viewed (Joe:. Le Theule; AIR & COSMOS, 17 Nlar 79) 15 Briefs ' - Terrorist Kidnapin~; Target 19 ~ Soviet Warning Predicted 19 SPAIN rditorial Scores Single-Mindecusess o~ Politicia.ns (Editorial; CANffiIO lo, 25 NI~r 79) 20 ORT, FTE 2'o Form United P~,rt~ ~ _ (cAr~zo i6, 25 r~.r 79 22 Editorial Advises Against Negotiating With ETA ( Edirorial, Jw~.n Tomas de Sa1as; CANIDIO 16, 18 Mar 79 25 MLlitc~ry Rei'orm To Yncrease Arap?' s Youthft.il. Look (caa~zo iE, ii rlar ?9) 27 - a - [III - WE - 150 FOUOJ FOR OFFIC:~AL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000100050006-9 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02149: CIA-RDP82-44850R0001000544Q6-9 r~ux ur~r~~.c:~At~ U5~ ONLY CONT~N'I,'~ ( Con~ inued ) p~ge Briefs M~artin Vi11a Attempt To Meet Wi~h ETA ~9 Grea~er UCD Diaci.pl~.ne ~9 Uranium Explc~etion 29 SWEDIIV 'Lnported~ Inflation Threatens Wage Pact (v~cxarrs a~,~, 29 Mar 79) 30 Stat~.atics Office Sees Znvestme,zts Increase (V~Cx~is ~F~, 29 Msx 79) 33 Briefe Continued Trade Surplus 35 - b - FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000100050006-9 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02149: CIA-RDP82-44850R0001000544Q6-9 ror~ orr7~cr.aL u~~ orr~y ~ c~u~r~tY src~riorr ncv?~iiK WAGG I~~Ct MAY rOaCG DCVALUATION Stockholm VIiCKANS A~r1~R1:R in Stvc:dish 29 Mar 79 ~P 37-3~ ~'i'exC~ Col~enhugen (V~CKANS ACFXRI:R) --The government warned of a sizable devalu,ltion of the Danish kronc l;,ter in thc year, when thc Folketing on � IVcdncsday of this week voted through a new 10-year agreement providing for annual wage increases of 10 to 11 ~~ercent . Accordi n~; to tlie government's economists this.gives a real wlse incre:ise of 2 ~~ercc�nt a year to LO [Danish (~edcr~tion of Trade Unions] meml~ers, but inderendct~t Danish economists ~rc surc that the wage increase at the end o.f. thc summcr wi.ll be eaten up by a considerable tightening up of fina~icial policy and a devaluation of the I)anish kronc, which fol lows the D-ma-rk [of the FRG] . 'fhc automatic feature of thc panish wagc system means that even a mere ex- tens.ion of thc agrecment will providc wage increases of 7 to 8 percent a year. 'i'he semiannual wage adjustment in accordance with the price index is exrected to bring about annual wage incre ases of 4.5 percent, and to this must be added u wage escalation of about 3 percent. T~ao days longer paid vac:ation in 1J80 and another three in 1981 cost the employers 2.5 percent, whilc the extra pay for overtirre, etc., means an extra nutlay of 1.8 percent. tiVithout an economic tightening up, the b alance of payme~~ts deficit this yeat� will go up at leust 8 billion Danish kroner. The employers think that thc wagc agrecment will incrcase unemployment, w}~ich now amounts to . 19U,()OU, i,y anot}~er 14,OQ0 over 3 years. The L0, on the other hand, is counting on employment's increasing by 25,000 as a result of the inc~~ased vacation. '11ie ~;overnment coalition between the Social Democrats aTi~i the Liberal Party lia.ti tlir clear objective of reducing ths deficit in the balance of payments :incl reducing foreign debt by 58 billion Danish kroner. Since the MOMS (v:il ue ~dcled tax] is al ready a good 20 percent and the excise taxes on :iutomobiles, lic~uor, and cigarettes are among the highest in the world, in the o~iinion of tl~e cxrcrts thc govcrnment has no other way out but to de- valuc ttic kronc, wl~ose exchangc rate is considered to be about 15 percent too t~ i gl~ . . i:~f~Ytt::11'I': Ahlen F Akerlunds tryckerier, S;:ockholm 1979 8815 CSq: 31OJ 1 r'OR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000100050006-9 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02149: CIA-RDP82-44850R0001000544Q6-9 ~o~ nrrxct~, us~ orrLY COUNTRY S~CTION FRANCE ~ MITTERRAND FUTURE VIEWED IN LIGHT OF LATEST ELECZ'IONS Paris PARIS MATCH in French 6 Apr 79 pp 52-53 LArticle by Arthur Cont) L~ex) What can we learn of what the future may hold in store for us from the latest ~~ection returns? Th~ first lesson is that the ma~ority received a sharp warning from the nation~ a warning that it would be unwise to ignore or forget. It was a defeat for the ma3ority. Of course~ it was no~ as ba~ as it might hrve been. The social climate is - so difficult~ and informatir.,n was handled so badly that the Elysee could have done much worse. Still~ it is a fairly harsh blow. ~ The second lesson is that the president still seriouslf lacks a large~ hi~h~.y organized~ and deeply based party. He has been working under this handicap since early in his 7.-year term. But the efforts which have been made to correct this situation have obviously been inadequate. What he has is more like a set ~f social clubs than a combat formation. The ` c~nly advantages he can makE+ use of are those dratvn from his o~?~n wisdom or his courage. T;, he~ him~ he has in essence or,ly a sort of strengthened MRP LPopular Republican .~Iovemen). This is very far from the artillery~ the tanks~ and the avia- tion support that will Y:~.?re to be found if he seriously wants to face the harsh years of t~:e 1980s. So for him tnis must be pr~.ority number c^~: to find both in the party lead~rship and in the party base the captains~ lieutenants~ and a::~ve all~ the sergeants~ who are all so terribly missing. 2 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000100050006-9 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02149: CIA-RDP82-44850R0001000544Q6-9 _ FOIt OFFICIAL USL ONLY The third lesson is that the presidont must be protected more securely than he is now. Either he s~ands too much out in . the open, or he~is left ~oo exposed. Th3.s is both dangerous and unh~althy. While this election was in reality more of a local than a national contest that cou1.d in no way over~tux~n the country~ we saw too many direet hits against the French prQSident. More attention wi11 have to be paid to protecting him from such risks, if they really want to preserve the spirit and equillbrium of a constitution which has the 3.n- comparable merit of savin~ us from an Italian-style anarchy. As the fourth lessun, some people would like to add that the president himself is too imprudent~ as for example when he sent his son and son-in-law into the political arena. But such a complaint does not hold. water. It was actually very pleasing that Henri G3scard d'Estaing~ with a11 his young man's sin- cerity~ agreed to draw to himself the shots aimed at his father. After ~11, he gav2 up a lot to do this; in any poli- tical undertaking~ most of what you get is~ as Harry Tluman used to say~ "a lot of ripe tomatoes and rotten eggs." As this young man obviously has a passion for politics~ he de- serves a great deal of credit for agreeing to be mixed up in this sort of clash. The fifth lesson is that~ as we have often predicted in previous articles~ the Communist Party has fully recovered its control ot" its resources and its strengths. The games - of some of its super-intellectuals on the party fringes are meaningless. The c~xpectation of the socialists that they would make the Communist Party's.share of the votes decline to 15 percent was only a fantasy. So obviously~ Georges Marchais has in no way given up his fundamental strategy� to s~rike his harshest blows against the Socialist Party; to have as his number one ob~ective to break the Socialist Party; to accept a union of the left only as a purely vote- getting alliance or as a last resort; to only make use of the Popular Front in order to prepare for a National Front once the Socialist Party is destroyed; and to grant no respite in this undertaking. Let's make no mistake about it: in the months to come~ Georges Marchais will go after Francois Mitter~^and more harshly than ever. One would have to be incredibly naive to believe in the seriousness of what is called the Union of the Lefts. Despite some appearances to the contrary~ this is now only a dead myth. 3 FOR OFFIG'IAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000100050006-9 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02149: CIA-RDP82-44850R0001000544Q6-9 , FOR OP"I~'ICI'AI, 115L pNl,Y The sixth Ieason is ~hat the socialis~s~ by obstinately refusing any change in strategy~ are fatally blocking any chances of bringing about a change in the system. Obviously~ once more~ they may wel~. be tempted to show off their laurels. For~ by l.in~ng up the best candidates and by knowing how ~o attract to these candidates the most varied and contradictory forms of discontsnt~ they got the most clearcut victory. The ma legitimately be pleased by this~ even if they must start getting accustomed to winning a11 the s~condary battles and losing all the ma~or races. In any event~ they are going to have a mass of general advisers who will provide them with extremely valu- able support in all the coming battles. And it is ~ust as true that any observer must concede that the soci~list message sti11 keeps its power. And yet~ for a11 this it is no less true that the most serious part of the problem lies here: the party has won a battle~ but without a strategy. It has seen it5 legions carry off a victory~ but without a coherent party line. And this was the source of the impression everybody received of the extraordinary confusion reigning on election night~ Sunday evening. Politically~ France sees only dimly where it is going because the Socialist Party does not know where it is going. So this is the question of questions: where is Francois Mitterrand in all this? , Between 1958 and 1978~ his strat~gy was fairly clear. In reality~ it was based essentially on two convictions and on two assumptions. The first~ conceived at the time of General de Gaulle's return to power on 13 May 1958~ was that the Fifth Republic would only last for a few years, and that General de Gaulle would collapse~ crushed by problems~ somewhat like Marshal P,~tain. "You have ~ust voted for Vichy~" Nitterrand sadly told Guy Mollet who had ~ust announced his support for the general's return. Not without courage~ he waged his "war of honor" against the new republic and its leader. He never gave up. The second conviction was a sort of rather Ga11ic gamble. At the age of 43 in the fu].1 bloom of his vigor~ his ambition~ and his talen~~ he found himself the only man in the center left capable of holding high the flag of the democrats against Gaullism. Pierre Mendes-France himself seemed to be out of the picture; he only recovered some years later~ and anyway~ since the war he had felt a dev~~tion for General dE Gaulle that was as discreet as it was deep. Mitterrand found that he alone could be Mr Anti-de-Ga~~lle. He felt he had both . ~ FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000100050006-9 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02149: CIA-RDP82-44850R0001000544Q6-9 FOR OF'FrCIAL US~ ONLY ~he strength and the resources for this~ and his whole campajgn did keep the mark of a certain personal adventurism. Let's not - make any mistake: Mitterrand's greatest pleasure will have been to have challenged de Gaul.le~directly~ one against one~ in the 1965 pre siden~ial elections. As to th e assumptions~ they were ~ust as claar. The firs t came from the "historic" lessons that hP thou~ht he could dr aw from the post-Stalin period. Considering Khrushch ev~ he said Lo himself that a new Russia was being born. Khrushchev~ in testimony of his "universal good wi11.~" had ~ust turned ovar Port Arthur to the Chinese~ had asked Tito's pardon had agreed to evacuate Austria (wtith the sole condition tha~ l~ienna would remain neutral and wou7.d ~oin neither bloc)~ and had begun a ma~or two-pronged caspaign~ against the personality cult "in the party~" and also in favor of ttiie highly touted pro~ect of "softening up marxism." ~ven if the memory of Budapest still rankled~ and in the shadows shed by the sinister Berlin Wall~ there could still be a gre at temptation to believe in the policy of destaliniza- tion and then to imagine that this would carry the Soviet party ve ry far along the route towards "socialism with a human fa ce." Mitterrand believed this; or at least he said he belie ved it. In any event~ hie whole gamble~ even in the area of domestic politi~s~ was unthinkable without such a belief. The second assumption was derived from the first. Since the Soviet party would evolve in a gooa direction~ the same would happen to the French CQmmunist Party. So a democrat~ even one who said he was not a marxist~ could ~oin it without fear or regret~ in order to defeat the Gaullist usurpers. The French Communist Party was quickly found to be a party like any othe r party, one even capable of governing loyally with other parties. An alliance with it no longer pxesented any sort of danger. On the contrary~ working with it~ becoming friendly with it~ could only lead the Communist Party to ` greater friendship~ confidence~ and loyalty. Mitterrand remembe red a saying of the American write.r, Emersan~ that Franklin RoosevElt liked to quote: "If you want to have a good friend~ be a good friend yourself." By maintaining an - exemplary frienship with the communists~ the socialists would soon call forth an ~identical loyalty from them. 5 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000100050006-9 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02149: CIA-RDP82-44850R0001000544Q6-9 FOR OFFICIAL U5E ONLY A11 ~he Niitterrandist a~rategy for 20 years came fxom these . four gambles: the all.iance "to the death" with the communists~ Mitterr and's spectacular enmmitment to the socialist ideal~ the frenz3.ed campaign against all the forces and a7.1 the forms of Gaullism~ the agreement with the communis~s on a~oint~ highly collectivized government program~ the refusal to enter into or even consider any other alliance outside of the '~Union of the Left," and the total basing of the entire _ French left on this sole and unyiel.ding cal.culation. We know very well what happened to the four gambles and to the entire strategy. First of a11~ the Fifth Republic showed it~ was stronger and lasted 1.onger than expected. Next~ Mitterrand never succeeded in portraying himself with the stature of a giant. Neither a"hero" in the de Gaulle style nor a"prophet" in the style of Leon Blum, observers even ~hose who w~re di~mayed by it quickly found that he did not: measure up to the 1eve1 of "History," nor could he by him:~elf carry off a dazzling personal adventure. Furthermore~ Brezhnev showed himself to be no less of a stalin~..st than Stalin himself. And finally~ it was soon learned that the Communist Party was only pl.aying its own hand~ with its everlasting scorn for "social democratic puerilities." The great dream~ already severely damaged by September 1977~ ~ split npart one fine evening in March 1978 when Georges l~iarchai.s ~ with an unprecedented violence ~ destroyed the Union of the Left and with it~ all of Mitterrand's plans. Of course~ it seems clear that Francois Mitterrand still believ~s in his star. The conviction of being chosen by destiny may rema3n strong within him. Even though he is now being slowed down by age and he can no ].onger be as impetuous as he was 20 years ago~ he seems to be hale and hearty. And � he was in great form on Sunday evening. ti~1e can recognize the force o.f his ambition from the energy he is using in preparing ~ for his May congress and for the Metz congress, and in defeat- ing Michel Rocard. In the depths of his being~ he needs a lot of energy and conviction to undertake his present trip - through his sections and federations~ an exhausting round through out the country. Furthermore~ we may well believe that the conviction of still being ~ole to assume a national ~ 6 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000100050006-9 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02149: CIA-RDP82-44850R0001000544Q6-9 FOR 0~'FICTAL USC ONLY - dest~.ny is st~.ll deeply rooted in him. To be convinced of - this~ we need only recall tha force of his television appear- ance on Sunday evening. Mi~terrand, who traditionally spends election evenings at his home at Chateau-Chinon~ this time left up to no other socialist outside of his friends Claude Eetier and Gaston Defferre the ~ob of interpre~ing the el.ection results on television. Undoubtedly he remembered - too clearly the time he gave M3.che1 ~Ro card the ~ob of de- livering a brilliant speech during the iast round of the legis- lative elections. On Sunday he totally "wiped out" Rocard~ and people such as Mauroy or Chevenement. He wanted to appear in person on the three TV channels~ TF 1~ A 2~ and Fr 3. Then on Monday morning he gave his opinions in person on the radio networks. This is.the action of a man who st~ll believes in hims elf . His conviction of the precariousness of the Fifth Hepublic has now yielded to another conviction, one ~ust as strong: the ~ fragility of the president. Just as r:itterrand in 1958 was convinced that Genera.l de Gau11e would not last long in power~ so may he think the same.of V.alery G.i.scard d'Estaing in 1979. ~ Let's even be sure that he feels that not only will Giscard ~ot have any chance of running in 1981~ but even that Giscard will collapse before 1981. So now he is counting on Chirac~ sa;~ing to himself that Jacques G'hirac~ if the Gaullists come near 20 percent in the European elections, will manage to have Giscard censure d? then to have the National Assembly dis- _ solved, and even to schPdule presidential elections earlier than planned. He may even be flirting with the idea that Giscard might resign. In any event and we are somewhat underestimating the role of Raymond Barr~ Mitterrand is convinced that there will be a ma~or political crisis in the year to come. This is obviously a conviction that illuminates as many hopes and plans as did his conviction in 1958� , But the situation of the Communist Party is quite d~~fferent. On one hand~ no matter wha~ changes take place in Russia~ the leaders wYio succeed Brezhnev will impose a first phase that will necessarily be an ultra-Stalinist period~ which will last for some years. Logically we have to think that if Russia one day sheds its Stalinis~ uniform~ it will not do , so before 1985. That will come too late (if it ever cames) to help Mitterrand's plan to succeed. ~ On the other hand~ the position of the French Communist Party vis a vis the social ists can no longer leave any room for doubt. Georges Marchais has in fact declared an unrelenting war on Francois Mitterrand~ and Francois Mitterrand is the 7 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000100050006-9 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02149: CIA-RDP82-44850R0001000544Q6-9 - FOR OI~'I~ iCIAL U5L nNLY first to realize that a communist par~y's campaigns are never short. There is even a strong case ta be made that Mit~erran~3 _ personally wi11. never again receive the support of communist _ voters in a presidential election. Dialectically~ histor3cally~ � he is the last s~cialist for y;i;.om the c~mmun3.sts will vote. And that may well bar Mitterrt~nd's way. He can persist in sticking to the Commuri3.st Party~ he may ber~r with infinite patience blow after blow~ and he may ~wear by a11 Yiis gods his "unitar~.an" sincerity, yet he can not ignore himself the inexorable trqp in which he is caught. Niarchais's eye has a terrible m,alics when it rests on Mitterrand: the eye of a hunter or a poacher who Y:olds his pr.ey. So Mitterrand is le#'t with no strategy at all or to be more exact~ he is left a prisoner ~f a bafl strategy, and apparently incapable of changing it~ at l.east until the next congress. ~ But there is also a totally obscured national policy~ and above a11~ it is impossible for the president to make use of an "alternation" which would in many respects be quite re- freshing and salutary. And this is the seventh and final. ma~or lesson of this strange caxnpaign which essentially brought a~braken majority into battle and for which a11 the givens were falsified from the beginning. Here we have a general political situation wlth no other immediate solution but te rely on the experience now in progress~ with all the variables it may include. In such a case~ we have to say that for the present majority~ no other political wisdom is possible but to tigh.ten ranks around the prime minister~ who is more often mistreated by his allies or his pseudo-friends than by his most real class enemies. A.nd the cantonal elections~ after all~ will have brought about no change in the course of our rivers. Unless Mitterrand is concealing some surprise up :~is sleeve~ for after the Metz Congress. ~ COFYRIGf~: 19'l9 par Cogedipresse S4 ~ 76 79 cso: 3~00 a FOR OFFICIAL USE ONL,Y APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000100050006-9 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02149: CIA-RDP82-44850R0001000544Q6-9 _ ~OR OFFZCIAL US~; ONLY COUPII'RY S~CTION ~RANCE NATIONAL ~CONOMIC ~'OLICYs REFLEC'rIONS ON INTERNATIONAL DEPENDENCY Perfs FUTURIBLES tn French Jsn 79 pp bb�72 [Artlcle by Jean Matouk, protes~or n~ economics at Che Univer~ity ~~t Montpel- liert "The Patha ot Explosive CroMth~'~ (TexC~ I recognlze tha~ today the choice ~i bet~s+een on ettitude opQn to tha aorld, alth tho risks !t entefl� but alao the opporCunitiQe it o!lera, and e proCectlonnliam which, limited to the natlonal i~vel, can Qnly lead Co di~t� saClsfection o! the coniumers who ere deprived of certain imported goods and Eorced draaticelly to ravi~a their aay of 1!ving~ !f oniy to reduce energy con,umptfon. Novever, such a reviiion, although temporarily paintul, could in the long run leed to a Nay o! living thet !a in better het~nony vlth the eco~ysrem, awre netural, end ffnally batter able to guarantee the survlval a oE the specles. But if We eliminete thia truly Mrevolutionary~' hypothesis and assua~ that the maintenance o! our preaent atanderd nnd way of lfving :~equires the maintenance of a lArp~e tioW of lmporta, end theretore a compensating floa of exports~ I contest the ~~explosive~~ vlew developed long ago by o~tr liberal governmenta: this !s the logic o! Che "13th" month ot exPorts !n 1973. Accor.ding to thfs idea, the exponenClal groWth o! lmports is an lntenglble quantity; conee- quently, the only salvntion ia to be tound in an indefinlte grrn?th fn exports at the aame rste. Noi?~ this i� a dangernus, coatly~ end taise vies;. It ia denqeroua, from the purely loglcei point of vieM, because the ~'time ot a linfCe world" Wlil arrives the markete of the neW countries and the Eestern countriea cannot be extanded indQtinitely, conaidering the competition amonR all the lndustrieliced counCrie� that are exploring the commerciai prospects, and tNelr o~m development. This exploaive aolution is alao expensive, because the real "exceas coet" of the sale o! a frnnc tor distant export, with long stays in Oriental attte- chambers (including tlps)~is much hlgher than the temporery marginel coat of e balancing aubsidy granted to a lame duck during the tlme necessary for !ts rec:3nverslon. Ffnaliy~ Che exploaive salution is lalse becauae France can, at thra price ot �erloua pl~nning that !s aimply but truly atimulating,quickly r+cover part of its i~ternal market and develop substitutes tor the expensive imports on its o~m soil. illthout Nanting to reduce the French to a Chinese frugality, it is n question o! "counting more on our otm strengths;as I have suggeated elaeMhere. 9 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000100050006-9 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/49: CIA-RDP82-44850R000100054406-9 1~UR UN'E'ICIAL US~ ONLY With Che~a ~esarv~tione, I willing~y ndmie ChBC Ch~ ~ndusCrial lmperaCfve remafns Che order of the day~ both to conquei,forelgn markeCa and to re. conqu~r ours. Md rhat tho proC~ctionlst and narroWly netionallstic tradf- Cions of certaln ~conomtc agenCs end policic~l, pnrtics must be opposad. But I m~:gt recell that if Che ~rench fnduetrial fabric ig r.oa no longQr capeble of rea~ating forelgn penetrarion, i~ it !e much looger and more Eull of holes thaa th~ Cerman febric, tih~: reaponelb~lity for thie lelle to 20 y~ar8 of ~hort-sighted policiea~ tim~ and again, w~th at leeat lour atebllitat~on pians and a seri4ua elump~ Which have t'avored the dissolukion of thia indueCrial lebrlc and preventad its recreation. In Chie respect, ' the ,~oint reaponsibilfty of an absurd system of crpdit margln completely contrary to libarallsm and the outdated example of the French banking system !s ennrrt~us~ eapecially in th@ very 1oW induatrial birth rate !n Frence. 1 am noC hiding the fact that on this polnt, apart from felr aords and publicity opererlons~ Chinge have changed a great deal in the laaC tew mon!:he. _ The d~agnoaia o! the pre~ent eituation requires three remarkst a) capitalism 1s e aall-detfned economic syatam~ !n f~a verlous forms competitive, ollgopolistlc~ etc. For ua~ ~t !s undermined by e certa~n number of besic contrndlctlons, 1lke the othor clesa 8ystem8 ~hat preceded it. Th~s doea noC meati as a certein "leftlaC nnessianiem~~ might leed one to believe thet !t is lneviCebly doomed in the ahort term. It can find aithin itself the neces8ary rasourcea to adapt. IC hse already done so. It can chenge lnto enother claas syatem~ ,~ust as oppre~sive !or those aho ere not in power. The Kaynesian revolution ia capitalism~s adeptaCion to e structural chenge in !ts induatrlel base. This haa gone from large pieces of besic equipment to consumer inclustries. In order for the chenge to succeed, e profouad change in the living conditions of the salaried Workers had to take glace. Thia aes ~'Fordlsm.~' The generel theory is the loglcal expression of the nea, inev- iCable operating rules of the syatems one of the essential changes Which is included, and rarely commented on, is the fixing of the nominal eelary, ahlch corresponds Well to modarn conditions. I do not aant to deprecate Keynes Who, at the same tlme, expleined the cyclical slumps, even alth Marxist arguments. I only aant to situate his contribution in the development of capitalism. - We ere noa living through a nea chenge to which capiteliam has bean led by the convergence of: the automation ahich !s itself due to the urgent neces- ' sity of permenently aubsCituting cepital for labor; the discoveriea connected with this euCometion~ and verioua public initiatives (NASA, military research, ~ aeronauCica, eCc.); a certain sdturation of demand in the developed countrles~ end the unsuitability of the gooda they produce for the demand of the nea countries. One muat therefore go from household appliences, autonwbiles~ oil~ and trad� ~tional chemistry to automated equipment, telecoamiurtications~ plasma metel- lurgy, nuclear energy~ biochemistry, genetic engineering~ etc., but elso to ~he larRe-scale production of modernised pieces of treditional equipment for the new countriea. In this way one can explain (I cannot go into detail here) the structurnl, lasting unemploymenC and lnflation in the industrialized cotm- tries ahfch the Keynesian pollcy~ Fordism, !s ap~arently unable to solve. 10 ~OR OFFICIAL USE ONLY a APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000100050006-9 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02149: CIA-RDP82-44850R0001000544Q6-9 ~Olt n~~ICIAL US~ ONLY b) Thfe mlump aeema Co affecC Ch~ indust~ialiaed capirallst counrrlas dif- f~rently. It seem~ tio aPfec~ Cr~~r Br~taln and Itely more, Cermany and ` Jepen lese. Today !t is etfecting the UntCad SCaCas~ which up Co no~r has been abla Co mftigata ft� effecCB by the imparial~~sm of the ~olier and plain imperialf~m tFro rypea of lmparielirm rhat the m~ltinatlonal corporatfons, _ mo8tly of Americen orlgin~ are tighCing vigorousiy. T'he~e difEerences among advancad countriea depend on h+o caueess their aCarCing siGuatlon afCer Che wax (WOrkable mtnes or lack of tl~em, nvaileb~lity of coal or energy dependance, abundance o! ekilled labor or lack of 1t) and the cMolco~ made 1n reconstructing ~he1r lnduatry lnlrial cholces of the parlod 1945- 1955, and Chen addltionai or rnplacement chofces in 1960-1970. Let us eay that Cerineny and Jap~n, ahlch Were destroyed, did a good job of reconstructfng end chooeing, whlch expiafns their succesa in exporC~ng. Bue this s~~r~asa~ by guaranteeing n groWing appreclaCion 1n Che value oF their currQncy, ~nebled them eitlier to lnvest even more or atrongly to brake their inflation. '~t~ia !a the oppoeite or' Che vicfous circle. Slnce the middie of the 1960s, 1t nas been esaentlaliy baged on c.urrency. But up to the laet Chlrac government~ the virtuas of devaluaCian Were still believed in France. c) France aea ur?able or unWilling to make these cholces~ or made Lhem bndly. Hoaever, the colon~al Wara and rhe political disorders produced some very promising !n!ClaCivea on tf~e part of certain leaders of the Fourth Republic, who thought in a di!lerent wey from many of those 1n the Fifth Republic (I em thinking, among oChers, of Pierre Mendes-France~ Felix Geillard~ - ~ Edgar Faure in h!s ~'flrsC phase"). They aere uneble rsally to introduce modernity in e reconstruction which, conaidering Che existing equipmenC Which Wes much more extenaive than in the devastated country of Germany Was performed almoat homothetically. They reconatructed in the literal sense of the worA, ahen they should also have modernised both the means of producCion and the social roletions. In thls area, the only innovations outaide of the natlonallzationa Were the paid vecaCions and the business commfttees~ vfiich have constantly been muzzled since their inceptior?. But the aorst !s that later, under De Cauile, when enything aas possible, ~ the second round of choicea, that of the 1960s, Wea lef t to the complete freedoc~ as I dare to sey !n contradiction Co the present propaganda of "NineCeenth Century~~ buslness leeders~ Whoae only a!m Was to take back the modest aocial gains of the Fourth Republlc. Nere I am speaking of the ~'major" bosses or the large companies. Exceptions? There Were some, of course. But not enough to form a critical masa. The moat obvlous is thc behavlor of the iron�master8, Who were aided by the government in 1966 With an annuity. Even tho economic behevior of many heeds ot nationalized companies was scandalous. Why are elecCriclty, dQmestic fllghts~ and telephone calls in France today among ~he most expensive !n Che world for th~ consumer? Md the PM~ [Small end Ftedium-Sise Buainesses~? They are the lance-heed of Cerman lndustry !n exporta. Our PME heve often Wanted to modernlze. There aas a ahole geaerarion nf young heeds of businesses Who made the right choices on their o~m level. But the economic end monetary policy in 1963-65~ 1970~ ard 1913�75 made tham, almdst aystematically~ the flrst sacrifices on the eltar of a recovery thet ia not over yet. u FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000100050006-9 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02149: CIA-RDP82-44850R0001000544Q6-9 ~'bR n~'rICIAL US~ dNLY Coupi~ad alCh nn unfavorabia endowmenC fn naCural x~sources Although our for~s~s ~~nd our agriculturnl potenCiei are underdaveloped tihia absence of lndusrr~al cholceg led ro rha pregent aituatlon. To cnunr on rhe haAda oC Che bip businesa~s Co cnrry out the chengas that ~re necaseery Coday~ whlle eWelling their prof.frs by meana of decontroiling , prfcea~ smacke of naivery or disingenuous~eg~. Indeed, unless there Were a preeain~ incentive from the governmenti, would you lnvest 10 or 100 million francs in ~rench lndugCry tomorroa, !f you got them out of the blue? The PrlE wl11 do it thelr horizon !9 narroWer. Hut therc3 are noe enough of them any more~ and the employea~ who want to opan their o~rn busfnQSS cannot do so. 0?~ly lmpararive induaCrlal planning at Che fevel of tt~a inveatmenCa of the largeet buslnesaee several o~ Which, morQavor~ shouid b~ naCionalized can meke ft posalble to caCch up a l~ttl~~ and correct th.~ choices~ Only strong measures to nid in th~ creaCion of busine8ses and to pro~sct Chem during their FirsC years can make our induatrial fabric more dense. This wili take time. For S or 6 yeara, Cermany Wl11 hava to agree to support .:he Euro- peen curreney elone~ W~thout developing !ta political hegemany. The dip- IomaCs~ ,~ob Will bA es hard es Chat of th~ men responsible for industrial policy. - More especlally as a slow groath, ~hfch is nece9sary to evoid mas;aive im- ports, hea Co be unequally ahared in order Co be ~?ncially tolerable. Much more tor Che most dletavored~ and lesa even much lees for those ahose incomes are higher than everege. This !s a difficulC policy for a rightist government to pursue. But the neo-liberai,s speak of self-management, of reduction in the range of incomes, of the crestion of responmlbilfty, etc. In fact, they are !n favor of anarchical seif-managemenC that is, a situation in Which an ot~mer, and Che banks, tace an unorganized personnel. I regret to say that this is also - a Nineteenth CenCUry concept. It must finally be admltted that there is a �unctional antagonlsm betxeen prlvate capitalie+; bosses (tomorrnW a class of techno-bureaucrats, like !n the USSR) end their employees~ to say nothing of the side claasee. Soclety ia tull ot contradlctions and contlicta. The it~telligent capiralfst solution consista o! admitting the existence of this coaflict and institutlonalizlag its development. Our ma~nagera began to under - stend Chat in 1968. The reeuit !s that in addition Co a colieborationist unlonism thet ia, one that accepts the capiCalist frameWark (FO [Horkers Force~) end anoth~r unlonism that re)ecta it but is Wtlling to tek~ a position on the union plan (CFUT [French Desocratic Confedsration of Labor~), there has qro~m up a unionlsm rhat is very closely nsaociaCed With the prfncipal opposition party, !or in vleW of the manageriel bottleneck, the only outlet seems Co be taking over the government. i~hence the importance of a OGT [G~neral Confederation ot Labor~ thet ia an opposltlon government in the nationalized buslnesses, end often takea poaitions in the private sector that are contrary to Che reel future lnteresta of the French economy. But it and its ective members have all klnds of excuaes, con~ti~ering the obvious collusion bet'~?een maneRemQnt ~nd government for the lest 20 years. Md on this last point, there hes been no ndW tr~nd since Aprl1 1918. 12 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000100050006-9 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02149: CIA-RDP82-44850R0001000544Q6-9 _ F'dI~ n~'~ICYAL US~ dNLY In Eect~gelf-manegement 1s Che beaic insClturfon of aocfalfsm, and ~s fully reali~~d only With Che suppreasion of prlvate ownership of the means of pro- ductfon, and oF salerie8 (~van wlehout privare oaner~hlp). In capitalism, it mey be turned asld~ from fts $oal~ if ft is not ineegrated lnto a tiruly orgentzed planning and ~f it te not backed up by powerful unfonism. We ere far from ChaC. Farther than Germany, ite are all the tarther in thet I have heard Calk nf noChing for monChs excepr elimineting the social coverage gained by ehe Work~r8 1n their srruggle. Now can one hope for thefr cooperation on auch a basis? Whnt !s the nntlon wlChout Chem? To be aure, the ebuses muati be elfminated, but they wfll dieappear by themselves wfCh unemployment end the change in aork~ng conditiona~ and Che manegement of the health sector for profft. There ae encounter induaCrial planning and the nationallzation of Che ma,~or groupa. Thim cennot walt. The constanC hyauns to 1lberallem have aaakened !n e certein aector of management the '~NfneCeeneh Century" devil Whfch wae sleeping. First there will be layoffs and e reducCion in aocial coverage, end then one will wait in vain for the "social party." I believe thet preeent policy !s a dead and. One cannor hope to stimulate the defen- sive, regenerative reactlons of e moribund industrial fabrlc. Only a series of dEllberate grefts can sav~ it~ and rhen r~,iuvenate it. It Will quickly be reallzed as soon as we enter tha Europ~an moneCary system ~hat the new pulicy !a economically end aocially unteneble. Therefore We wl11 chenge !t. Nence my optimtsm for Che lOng run. Albert~s 'fheorem The report on the adaptetion of the 5eventh Plan, preaented in S~ptember 1978 by Mfchel Albert, general commiseer for planning~ ~peclfies that iE the arrengement of the Seventh Plan is maintained~ its adaptetion eims es- sentially at three mein goals. 1) The lasting recovery of our foreign trade balance. ~verythlnL depende on thia !n Che medium terms the rate of groWth and the level of employment, the aolldlty of the aurrency, the inde~rer.dence of the country, and the buying poWer of ita citizens. 2) The adaptetion of our industry to more and more diffie;ult internationel competition. Industry alone provides four fifths of F'rance~s exports. The economic controntetions ahich heve continued to be intenairled since the oil crisis bear essenCially on lndusCry. 3) The lmprovement of aorkinq cond~tions. This fs a question of responding to the demenda of the working people end facing the necessary industriel conversiona and the consequ~,nces of a sloadown !n growth. These three goela ere cloaely related. Indeed, the authors of the teport edd: "Whet ia the principal cause of the sudden~ simultaneous rlse in unem- ployment in all the developed countries, folloWing the oil crisis? Apparently~ the sudden, eimultaneous drop in the rate of groath, Which aas elready in embryo fn the ~cceleration of lnflntlon since the end of the 1960a. ~'What limlts the raCe of Arorrth fn France todeyT Above ali, the ~foreign con- straint,~ the necesaity !or a natlon like ours, Which !s concerned with its lndependence~ to belance !ta purchases With !ts sales and to guarantee the value o! its currency. 13 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000100050006-9 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02149: CIA-RDP82-44850R0001000544Q6-9 F'Oft Ot~'~ICIAL USL dNLY . "Md what should we do 4o that France cnn manage~ relaC~vely epe~,'~~ng, Co sell more and buy lese4 There ia only on~ soluL�fon outgide og Che g~nerai impoverfahment of the Frencht the orrengChenfng oE busineases end of thelr comp~eiCive capabilfry." Thus whaC hA$ been named ~'Alb~rt~s Theor~m'~ and is rh~ gource of the nea econ- omic poltcy cen be expreased ae followes ~~EmploymenC is linkad tn groath. CroaCh ie linked Co Ch~ foreign trade balance. The foretgn Crade balance !s linked to the adapCation of our fndustry.~~ Solde en millluds dn p * Escimulon ~ ? SO ~ * I I +~o ' i i _ ! i ; ?30 . _ ~j ~ J ~ ,~~o ; . ~ ~ . ; . : . t ?10 industrla N~ ~ N~~~~... ~y~ ~.r~~~~ ti~.~ ~IM b i r~ I O ~~r~..y~~ ''~ti ~ Atrtculcu~e " Tot~l ~nertle -10 -10 --~0 . -60 -70 * . 1962 63 64 6S 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 7S 76 77 FiRure 1: Foreign trede balence by 8ector. Ordlnatet balance in blilfons of Erancs; sters estimetes; sour~ls Seventh Plan Indices~ No 6. COPYRiCHTs Msociation Internationele Futuribles 1979. 8429 14 rc~� z,nn F'OB OFFTCIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000100050006-9 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02149: CIA-RDP82-44850R0001000544Q6-9 ~ox o~~rc.rni, us~ orrLY c~u~~Y s~c~rroN ~nivc~ ~ CIVIL AB~tONAUT?C9 OONSTEiUCTIUN INDU52'ftY VIEW~D Paris AIA ~ O~SM03 in French 17 Mar 79 pp g~ ii [Report on preeg ronferenee of Minister nf ~anaport Joel I,e Theule] [Text] Minister of Transport Joel Le Theule devoted a nia3or part ~f his prees conference last week to the I~'rench civil aeronautics conetruction induetry. French civil e?viation aanufacturing nax accounte for approxiaately one-third nf all F~ench aeronautical cane~,ru~tion. Nhereas in 1975 ~t had ahoxn a deficit~ it Sa nox contributing to the surplus in the balance of trade in the aeronautice indu~try as a xhole. Thia contribution aaounte to approxi- Nately 1 bi111on fycence if you take into account the purchase of foreign aircraft by FYench companiee~ and npproxi~ately 2 billion f~anc8 for civil aviatian manuPacturing properly apeaking. 300 Airbusea Marketed The miniater pointed out thaL the spectrw of civil aircraft built in I~ance is quite broad~ ranging from li~t airplanes~ executive airplanes and heli- copters all the xay to transport aircraft~ The Rinister dxelt especially on the sub~ect of the Airbue. He noted that in the case of the B2 and Btf planes 21 cdmpanies had placed orderg for a tatal of 131 planes and taken c::�ions on 63 more. The final figures for iq78 shox the A300 to be the best-selling large transport p2ane in the xorld after the Boe~r~ ?47. LQSt year ita ealea equaled the eum total ~of the sales of the DC-10 and L-1011. ltoreover~ there are definite prospecta for nex salesi to Laker (10 aircragt) ani the Japaneae 2~OA [exganaian unknown~ co.~,r (6 aircraft)~ and various covp~nies of the Middle ~ast and A,frica are currently negotiating for the purchaee of a total of 37 aircre~ft. The eigning of theea contracts xould ~uickly bring to 231 the total of Airbua A300'e either definitively sold or on option. 3ince la8t July a nex eleRent hae been introduced into this epeet,ruae the A310 haa been put on the oarket~ and the notices of intention to purcbase thia uodel imol~e a total of apgzoxLately 80 air.craft for aeven difterent countries. SMissair has 3u$t announced ita deciaiun in principle to buy 10 of theae planea. 1 FOR (?'ri~'1C1AL U5E QNLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000100050006-9 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02149: CIA-RDP82-44850R0001000544Q6-9 I~OR U1~t~ICIAf~ U~l:' UNLY The mini~~er conclud~d by eayi.ng tha~ at the p~esent time mo~e ~than 300 Airbueea have either been ordered~ optinned, or a~ade the ob~eot of opeoific noticee of intention tc~ purchase on the part of the air tr~nspor~ comp~niea. Le Theule eetiaa~ted the French indu~try'~ ohare o� the total value n:f this aircraft conetruction to ba 4~ peroent and stated that this a::are breaks doxn to 37 Pereent for airframe~, 27 pereent fnr engSnea and more than 50 pex~ent for equipa?ent. Comparing theee ftgurea xith tho~e for the Caravelle Program~ ~he e~inister i;~dicated that the ronfSr~ed orders for the Airbus alone already con~ti~ute~ for the F~rench e,viation manufacturing industry~ a backlog of orders greater t,han th~ total produ~tian repreaented by the entire Caravelle program. The fact ia that xhen concluded~ the Ai.rbws pro~ram x~.ll represent 4 to 5 timeg the production of the Caravelle program. The Industry Will Meet the De~and _ There is concern today xith reepect to the capacity of the ~ench and European aviation induatry to aeet the deaaand. La Theule declased~ hoxever, that thia concern Sa no longer founded on the skepticism of last euamer. On th~ basis nf ~Ehe increaee in ss~les as of the end af 1978~ Airbus Industry had alreac~y taken--at that ti.aie--its decision to ir~crea8e the rate of production fro~ txd planes per month to aix by 1y83. The succeases achieved aince the firet of the year have cxused the schedule to be revised upxard. It is not impossible that the rate of aix per month xill be achieved by 1982 ~ and that the rate of eight to 10 per month xill conceivably be neceasary beginning in 19g3 ~n order to ueet the stated requirevents of the air trar~sport companiee. AEROSPATIALE [National Induatrial A,,~~xospa,ce Compa,ny] should provide for this eharp increase in production by con.cinuing the efforts to increase produc- tivity that it has already initiate~.,. To thie end: 1. As a firat step~ it is preparing all its various divisionss and ita affiliates to operate at full capaci;:y. 2. It is diveating iteelf of non-avia~:ion related act~vitiea in order to devote ita full potential to the tasks that pertain to its vocation. 3. It is ruaking an appeal to all firms in the aviation industs~�, and in particular to the eubcontractora~ to participate (son~e of the subcontractora are being called upon to expand by hiring additional personnel). 4. Un the ba81s of ita exieting factories, it is aubcontsacting extensively among regional industrial enterprises, especially thoae in the Toulouee and Basse-Loire regione. 5� Yith the aid of the g+overnaient~ it is atudying the possibility of entruating certain types of xork to non-aviation related co~pRniea that are currently having difficulty in obtatning ordera. 16 Fok arr�