Word: alain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...medical researchers, it was no less surprising that Even and his colleagues, Jean-Marie Andrieu and Alain Venet, had based their sensational report on tests with only two patients, one of whom had been treated for less than a week. "To draw conclusions with just a week's time frame is really a majestic leap," said Anthony Fauci, a leading AIDS investigator at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). AIDS researchers in both the U.S. and France also censured the Paris team for holding a press conference before they had presented their findings in a scientific forum...
...nearly two decades. So when the Swedish Academy last week finally awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature to French Novelist Claude Simon, 72, the news seemed both , inevitable and a little outdated. Simon had a period of modest renown during the 1950s and early '60s. Along with Nathalie Sarraute, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Michel Butor, he became a chief exponent of the French nouveau roman, a form of fiction that rigorously questioned traditional narrative devices. Reality, so the Gallic logic went, is not easy to read. Simon has proved himself just as good and as exhausting as the form that...
...domestic broadcast. That may have been a signal, however, that Gorbachev intends to be as tough as his predecessors on human rights issues. Despite its audience of 7 million, Gorbachev's interview ran second in the French ratings to a showing of The Burned Barns, a film starring Alain Delon and the late Simone Signoret (see MILESTONES...
...Zealand, meanwhile, two other DGSE agents face a preliminary hearing in November in connection with the sinking. Identified as Major Alain Mafart, 34, and Captain Dominique Prieur, 36, they were arrested shortly after the attack in Auckland harbor. The French government now acknowledges they were a support team for the frogmen who planted the hull-attached mines but argues that they should not be prosecuted since they were acting under orders. New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange, however, has ruled out any "deal" to exchange their freedom for French reparations. Denouncing the sabotage mission as "a sordid act of terrorism...
...conceived; General Jeannou Lacaze, then overall armed forces Chief of Staff; and Hernu. By most accounts, Mitterrand was not informed of the spying mission until a week after the Rainbow Warrior had been sunk. By that time the New Zealand police had arrested two French secret-service agents, Major Alain Mafart and Captain Dominique Prieur, who had been posing as a honeymooning Swiss couple. Charged with murder, arson and passport offenses, the two face a preliminary hearing in New Zealand in November...