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Green Peril. Such is the political strength of the French Friends of the Earth and other ecology groups that they are now known as the "green peril." Both right-and left-wing parties are now busy wooing the ecologists, who could well be a deciding influence on next year's parliamentary elections.
The environmentalists, meanwhile, are launching an illegal "Green Radio" network on FM bands in Paris this month. Although the government maintains a rigid monopoly on all broadcasting, the ecologists will operate individual 20-watt transmitters, just powerful enough to reach each arrondissement (district). Even if police track down the transmitters with radio direction finders, the ecologists are prepared. Their antennas will be nestled, appropriately, in the luxuriant springtime foliage of Paris treetops. Transmitters will operate from nearby autos. When the police close in, the ecologists' cars will merely move on to other trees and beam new radio broadcasts from them.