PARIS - Violence in France fell sharply overnight, the police chief said Thursday, one day after the government toughened its stance by imposing emergency measures and ordering deportations of foreigners involved in riots that have raged for two weeks. Also Thursday, the national police said eight French police officers had been suspended for their suspected role in the beating of a young man in a Paris suburb. Two of the police officers were suspected of dealing "unwarranted blows" to the man in La Courneuve, one of the difficult suburbs where unrest has broken out recently, said national police spokeswoman Catherine...