Roger Fauroux pulled the strings at Bull SA in the early 1980s before the first Mitterrand administration renationalised the company, and although Fauroux is now industry minister, Bull must sometimes feel he is still running the company: Bull is refusing to make any comment on a suggestion made by Fauroux on Wednesday that the company is to embark on a plan to reduce its workforce worldwide, and that it will be revealed in mid-November; most of the cuts are expected to come outside France, and will be less severe than the 3,000 reduction, 1,200 in France now under way.
