Mr. Yeltsin himself emerged badly scarred by the unceasing battles with the conservative deputies, and not only that.

Jaubert was hostile to this reform, and wrote to a number of conservative deputies asking them to help bury the proposal.

We'll begin recall campaigns against conservative deputies to the national Parliament.

He abandoned efforts to collaborate with conservative deputies.

No sooner did he finish talking than conservative deputies sounded their first calls for his ouster.

"Multiculturalism would be the end of France," Pierre Lellouche, a conservative deputy who represents a Paris suburb with a large number of immigrants, said.

I beg the Government," said Kamel Abedinzadeh, a conservative deputy from Khoi, "to find a way out of this inflationary situation.

Before, conservative deputies talked earnestly about joining the ranks of "civilized countries."

"I can understand the emotion of people who suffered at that time," said Jacques Baumel, a conservative deputy who was a Resistance hero.

The censure vote was put forward on Friday by conservative deputies who are supported by Communists.