While much public attention is directed to national, state and large-city debt issues, Treasurer Pappas warns homeowners and taxpayers to pay careful attention to mountinglocal public debt in their communities.
Nervous about the use to which such outfits might be put in such National Front-controlled spots as Vitrolles, a southern town where tension between the national and local police has been mounting, Mr Jospin has promised laws to define their role and limit their powers.
In a bitterly ironic twist, many foreign observers argue that Cambodia is still incapable of mounting a properly constituted local tribunal for Pol Pot's surviving Khmer Rouge lieutenants.