Word: barris
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...center-right parties by about 50% to 46% in the latest polls, and there were plainly still some Frenchmen who were ready to resort to the traditional Gallic suitcase defense against the possibility of abrupt political change. Headlines bannered the news last week when French customs officials nabbed Lucien Barrière, president of the gambling casinos in Cannes and Deauville, as he traveled to Switzerland by train with $634,000 in diamonds and other gems in his luggage. The baubles, Barrière explained, were just something for his wife to wear on a skiing holiday in Gstaad...
...fact the headquarters of an organization that specializes in breaching the Wall and other Communist barri ers to help refugees escape to the West...