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Reported by Alain L. Sanders/New York
...mess evidently began in 1968, when Aldo Bonassoli, a telephone-company electrician in Ventimiglia, Italy, convinced Count Alain de Villegas, a wealthy private investor, that he could develop a technique for discovering oil from the air. A French intelligence agent learned of the project, and the Giscard government decided that it might be useful for detecting submarines. Villegas signed the first of a number of contracts with Elf-Aquitaine, and payments were made into secret Swiss bank accounts...
Alfonsin considers himself a frustrated writer and enjoys movies. (His favorite: Hiroshima Man Amour, a 1959 antiwar film by French Director Alain Resnais.) Asked once to elaborate on qualities necessary for leadership, he listed "honesty, courage to confront situations ... not to be ambiguous." He added, "Politics does not give satisfactions except for the sensation of duty accomplished. It is an unhealthy trade. But I believe it is what I should...
...streets; at times the air has been filled with hurtling rocks and police tear gas. At issue: the Socialist government's proposals to reform higher education. President François Mitterrand included the overhaul of French universities in his campaign platform two years ago. Now his Education Minister, Alain Savary, has introduced a plan to open up higher education to more students and alter the system to make it more democratic. But by sharpening the inherent conflict between quality and equality, the plan has touched off a two-week filibuster in the National Assembly, polarized the university community...
...single-hulled boat, set last year by Australian Neville Gosson. This time Gosson was expected to finish fourth among the larger boats. Jeantot's eleven-ton 56-footer even shaved ten days off the previous single-handed circumnavigation record, set in a trimaran by fellow Frenchman Alain Colas in 1973-74. Jeantot's large monohull also set new race records for the fastest noon-to-noon run (240 miles) and seven-day run (1,552 miles). In France, an instant national hero was born. Jeantot, Superstar; Jeantot, King of the Sea; Jean-tot, the Absolute Conqueror, toasted...