A planned increase

A planned increase in the 2004 French defense budget survived a belt-tightening exercise designed to prune the country's ballooning deficit. Armed with a July 13 pledge by President Jacques Chirac to stick to a multiyear spending hike approved last year, planners left intact 1 billion euros ($1.14...

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