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Paris cash machines run dry
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May 17, 2000 |
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Sounds like a no-brainer, but negotiations aren't moving all that swiftly. By Friday, the strike was beginning to have real effects on French citizens and tourists alike. With no drivers to deliver crisp francs to hungry automatic teller machines, customers itching for a kilo of strawberries at the local market were finding their plans spoiled when their ATMs ran out of money. By Friday in Paris, 25 percent of the Credit Lyonnais and Societe Generale cash machines were closed, and 10 percent of the machines operated by the Banque Nationale de Paris were down. Talks between the drivers and their employers were scheduled to resume Saturday, but that didn't help people who found themselves penniless on Friday afternoon, as most French banks close over the weekend. Will the city survive? Probably. Most
likely, Parisians will take the strike
in stride, maybe take one less cafe
crème -- but the tourists? One shudders
to think what will happen if the
international masses cannot afford to
get into the Eiffel Tower.
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