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France’s Socialists won Sunday’s parliamentary elections on promis es to ease austerity policies that President Jacques Chirac’s center- right government imposed to meet stringent standards for joining the European Union’s single currency. France’s Socialist leader, Li onel Jospin, says he supports cre ation of the euro — but that France will join the monetary union, scheduled for 1999, only if the EU meets new conditions. They include a guarantee that Italy and Spain also will adopt the euro; a flexible interpretation of the entry criteria; and a strong voice for EU members to counterbalance the planned European Central Bank. France’s new demands are a cause for concern in Germany, its strongest ally in the single Currency drive. “The change of government in France creates risks for develop ments in Europe,” said Michael Glos, a leading member of the Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister par ty of Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s Chris tian Democratic Union. Chief among the concerns are the possibility that the euro’s debut will be postponed, or that France’s move to soften the currency crite ria will result in a euro weaker than the German mark. Kohl’s government has not di rectly warned the new French government not to tamper with plans for the euro. On Monday, Kohl’s party did say it expects the new French regime to push ahead with the euro on sched ule — and without watering down the entry criteria. The Free Democrats, junior al lies in Kohl’s three-party coali tion, say a breakdown in French- German cooperation could be fatal to the euro. “The Germans and the French must show responsibility — es pecially now — for Europe and stay on a joint course,” said Hel mut Hausmann, the Free Democ rats’ economics specialist. Germany has plans do some euro tinkering of its own. Its scheme to revalue the nation’s gold and currency reserves and trans fer the profits into government coffers has been blasted by Germany’s cen tral bank, by economists and by the Dutch finance minister. German gold reserves have a mar ket value of $33.5 billion.The Finance Ministry says the government expects to net about $11.5 billion. Current performance of the European Union member states in relation to the requirements for joining the EU single currency on Jan. 1, 1999. 1 Single currency criteria* Austria U Belgium Denmark HP- Finland France )Wi> Germany |?j!|E Greece SUL Ireland Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Portugal Spain Sweden 121 UK Inflation Interim index of cons, prices March 1996-97 Interest rates Long term interest rates Mar. 96 - Feb. 97 Deficit/GDP ratio 1996 (x) Debt/GDP ratio 1996 2.6 or less 8.2 or less 3.0 % or less 60 % or less 1-2 P 6.2 3.9 69.8 1.3 6.4 3.4 130.0 1.5 7.1 1.7 70.2 0.8 6.9 2.5 58.8 1.1 6.2 4.1 56.2 1.3 6.2 3.8 60.7 5.9 14.8 7.4 111.8 na 7.1 0.9 72.8 2.2 8.9 6.8 123.6 1.3 6.2 -1.4* 6.4 1.3 6.1 2.4 78.5 2.3 8.1 4.1 65.8 2.2 p 8.3 4.4 70.3 1.0 7.7 3.5 77.7 1.8 7.9 4.8 56.3 (p) provisional (') surplus Bmsmmmmmm ‘Single currency criteria Inflation: Interest rates: Variable. Not to exceed 1.5 percentage points of the average of the best three performing countries Variable. Not to exceed 2 percentage points of the average of the best three performing countries Deficit/GDP ratio: Figure fixed. 3 percent or lower Debt/GDP ratio: Figure fixed. 60 percent or lower d m There are loopholes lor nations whose debt and deficits are sufficiently declining, even if above the required level. United States continues Sierra Leone evacuation' GUINEA 50 miles ; 50 km SIERRA LEONE NIGERIA LIBERIA DfeMonrovia .A Hundreds of civilians moved from the heavily targeted Mammy Voko Hotel to the Cape Sierra Hotel for evacuation. Atlantic Ocean Aberdeen Greater ■ Freetown Coup defense headquarter AP Marines escort foreigners to safety amidst rebel threats FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Guarded by U.S. Marines with armored vehicles and 25-mm cannons, 1,200 foreigners boarded helicopters Tuesday and fled this West African nation for the safety of an American warship. It was the third Marine-led evacuation since mutinous soldiers overthrew Sierra Leone’s elected government May 25 in a bloody coup. Nigeria sent in new troops Tuesday and appeared poised for another assault. Scores of people died in fighting this week after Nigerian soldiers bombarded po sitions of the mutineers. Three helicopters carrying Nigerian troops left neighbor ing Liberia to reinforce more than l ,500 of their countrymen whom the rebel army forced to retreat on Monday. The Nigerian Defense Ministry said its move was backed by neighboring Guinea. An Organization of African Unity meeting made no decision on whether to intervene in Sierra Leone, despite a plea from the gov ernment of ousted President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. “We have no alternative but to remove those dogs from our capital,” James Jonah, Sierra Leone’s ambassador to the United Nations, told the gathering in Zimbabwe. Nigerian state radio said Nigeria hoped no “full mill- Canada fears complications of tary operation” would be needed, but said its troops werd “policing the coup leaders so as to flush them out. “When you are dealing with a madman in a chinai shop you do not ride roughshod over him so as not to ^ wreck everything,” according to the radio report mon itored by the BBC. In Freetown, the streets were empty of residents, andl^l sporadic fighting continued despite a cease-fire the Red Cross arranged to allow Tuesday’s evacuation from an * a| area near the Cape Sierra Hotel. Ann Wright, the U.S. charge d’affaires, watched asf :o| evacuees — including 30 Americans — boarded heli-||, copters for the USS Kearsarge off shore. Since Friday, U.S.T helicopters have ferried about 2,400 foreigners from the city to the warship. At least 10 people were carried to the j helicopters on stretchers. Wright said the area “has become a very dangerous pi place with a bunch of 13-year-olds around and outoflbl control. ... These are a bunch of thugs and lunatics hav-fill ing a free reign of terror with the army joining in.” I After Tuesday’s evacuation, and the 356 Marines re-|io I turned to the Kearsarge, coup leader Maj. Johnny Paul Jlr Koroma traveled through the capital in a heavily*:afl armed motorcade. Pi Paulo Leizzair, owner of the Cape Siena Hotel, said Koro-lt I ma stopped there and told him “the trouble is over.” I divided Parliament 1 OTTAWA (AP) — Prime Minister Jean Chretien insisted Tuesday he could govern Canada effectively de spite the prospect of rancorous five way debates in a Parliament frac tured along regional lines. Quebec separatists disagreed, saying their push for independence would take on new urgency because the western-based Reform Party was now the main opposition. Reform’s new role “will radical ize politics,” said Quebec’s sepa ratist premier, Lucien Bouchard. “This party was elected on the back of Quebec. It’s been attack ing all Quebeckers, whether fed eralist or sovereigntist.” Chretien, who barely survived a close race against a separatist in his own Quebec district, tried to find a bright side in the outcome of Mon day’s election. His Liberal Party lost 19 seats, emerging with a narrow majority of 155 seats in the 301- member House of Commons. “When you have a majority and you have four parties located in dif ferent parts of Canada with some who are on the right, some extreme right, some on the left, it’s not a dif ficult political problem to run a gov ernment,” he said Tuesday in his hometown of Shawinigan, Quebec. 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