DISNEYLAND PARIS TO UP WORK FORCE.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Not only is Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse Famous character of Walt Disney's animated cartoons. He was introduced in Steamboat Willie (1928), the first animated cartoon with sound. Mickey was created by Disney, who also provided his high-pitched voice, and was usually drawn by the studio's head animator, finally making money in Europe - now he's hiring. The company that operates Disneyland Paris hopes to add nearly 1,000 employees by 1997, Euro Disney chairman Philipe Bourguignon said. Friday's announcement was welcomed by the French government. France's soaring unemployment rate reached 11.7 percent at the end of last year. Euro Disney already employs 10,000 people. Planet Hollywood, the U.S.-based chain of theme restaurants, plans to open a restaurant inside the park later this year, and the Gaumont cinema company plans to open an eight-theater complex to screen Disney films. upancy. The park has rebounded to become the No. 1 tourist draw in France, even among the French, eclipsing the Louvre Louvre (l  `vrə), foremost French museum of art, located in Paris. The building was a royal fortress and palace built by Philip II in the late 12th cent. and Eiffel Tower Eiffel Tower, structure designed by A. G. Eiffel and erected in the Champ-de-Mars for the Paris exposition of 1889. The tower is 984 ft (300 m) high and consists of an iron framework supported on four masonry piers, from which rise four columns uniting to form one .
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