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Riot police officers use water canon against protesters after a demonstration against the pension reform plan that ended near the National Assembly building in downtown Paris, Tuesday, June 10, 2003. Public sector workers walked off the job over a highly contested plan to reform the pension system and demonstrated in Paris as Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin was to open a parliamentary debate on the pension plan reform at the Assembly. The Eiffel tower is seen in background.(AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)