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Published last April, the Suicide Mode D'Emploi ('Suicide Operating Instructions') has already sold 50,000 copies. Publisher Alain Moreau predicts it will bring in $210,000 this year. Attempts in France to ban the book--which contains a chapter of 50 easy, painless and lethal "recipes"--have ranged from the Roman Catholic Church and the Ministry of Health to the parents of one of the 10 people thought to have succeeded in killing themselves by following the book's advice...
...wrote the main story after visiting most of the same institutions Leifer had photographed. Says Andersen, "I have never encountered an issue about which there is so much basic agreement on what is wrong and on what ought to be done." He had the expert help of Reporter-Researcher Alain Sanders, who has a degree from Columbia University Law School. Sanders saw his assignment as a "welcome chance to go beyond the minutiae of law and to see how the legal system affects people at its point of greatest impact...
...Alain Gomez, 43, a graduate of the elite Ecole Nationale d'Administration (E.N.A.) and onetime Harvard Business School student, who will lead Thomson-Brandt, an electronics and home appliance firm. A founder of the Socialist Party's vocal left wing, Gomez is probably the most ideological of the appointees. But his training and twelve years' experience as an executive at the newly nationalized Saint-Gobain-Pont-a-Mousson, a diversified glassmaker, give him impeccable business credentials...
...members of the French Rothschild clan will not lack for things to do with their money. Unaffected by the nationalization are the nonbank personal holdings of Baron Guy and Cousins Baron Alain and Baron Elie, including New Court Securities, a U.S. investment firm based in New York City, which will now receive more of the family's attention and money. And beginning Jan. 1, 1982, New Court will change its name to a more golden sounding sobriquet: Rothschild...
National Hockey League: Miroslav Frycer scored three goals and Alain Cote added two as the Quebec Nordiques trounced the Boston Bruins, 6-1, last night. Brad Park scored Boston's lone goal...