Reply #7: uodated link: PARIS - Tens of thousands of students and workers marched

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PARIS - Tens of thousands of students and workers marched in Paris and other French cities Saturday in the biggest show of anger yet at a jobs plan that has sparked violence and threatened to weaken the government.

Youths set a car ablaze, broke a shop window and hurled stones, golf balls and other objects at police at the end of the Paris protest against a plan for a new type of job contract to increase employment among less privileged youths by making the labor market more flexible.

Riot police wielding shields and batons rushed the crowds and fired tear gas in an effort to clear the streets of Paris.

Officials provided no immediate estimate of the number of protesters in Paris, the biggest known march, but two unions claimed 400,000 people participated.

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