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High speed trains are pictured idled on the railroad workers's seventh day of strike, while thousands of commuters used their cars to avoid public bus and subway service strike, triggering huge traffic jams on the Paris ring road and around the French capital Thursday Nov 30, 1995. French electrical, gas and telephone workers joined a growing strike, while students as organized more protests as the conservative government dug in its heels in a showdown over auterity policies.(AP Photo/Michel Lipchitz)