France To Introduce Airline Tax For Third World Relief

France plans to introduce an airline ticket tax aimed at alleviating poverty in Third World countries "as soon as possible," President Jacques Chirac said yesterday. "Without waiting, I asked the government to start the procedures necessary to put such a tax in place next year," Chirac said...

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