The ceremony was kicked off with a can did speechby the president regarding the need for furtherescalation of the war in Vietnam.

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In France,where a government vaccine campaign kicked off in public schools on Wednesday, a recent survey found only 21 percent of French said they planned on getting vaccinated.

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It was kicked off last June by President Nicolas Sarkozy, who announced in a major speech that the face veil, which he called a burqa, was against French values and not welcome in France.

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