TELEVISION PROGRAM SUMMARY 091200: PAR 90 - 405

This document is a summary of a television news broadcast from Paris Antenne 2, dated November 9, 1990. The broadcast covered eleven primary news items. International affairs dominated the headlines, including the deployment of U.S. troops to the Gulf, an anonymous U.S. State Department official's skepticism regarding French commitment in the Gulf, and a SOFRES opinion poll indicating that 51 percent of the French public believed conflict in the Gulf was likely, while 52 percent opposed French participation. Other major international events included Mikhail Gorbachev's arrival in Bonn for the first anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and East German disappointment regarding the speed of German reunification. Domestically, the report noted Roland Dumas's visit to Morocco to meet King Hassan, a decline in French arms sales compared to the United States, and political friction between the UDF and RPR parties regarding the appointment of a joint leader. The broadcast also commemorated the twentieth anniversary of the death of General de Gaulle and reported on a demonstration by Lycee pupils in Paris, as well as a murder investigation at a clinic in Marseille.