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Marchais bids adieu to the Party

Thursday 27 January 1994 00:02 GMT
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The French Communist leader, Georges Marchais, yesterday bade farewell to the party he led for 22 years, acknowledging it had been a bitter period of errors and decline, Reuter reports from St-Ouen. He told the Communist Party congress that world upheavals had cost French Communists dear but better days lay ahead for a renovated party.

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