The World - News from Oct. 6, 1989

French Prime Minister Michel Rocard won a battle with prison guards, who gave up a weeklong strike, but tens of thousands of civil servants marched in the capital in another labor dispute. The Justice Ministry said most of the 15,000 prison guards who struck Sept. 27 had heeded a union leader’s call to return to work. Meanwhile, about 30,000 civil servants from the Finance Ministry marched through central Paris to Rocard’s office to press their demands for higher pay and better working conditions. Also, unions representing nurses, police officers, firefighters and public transport workers have either threatened walkouts or staged short work stoppages this week.