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DIED. Victor Jules ("Trader Vic") Bergeron, 81, irascible, ingenious restaurateur who, starting in 1934, parlayed a tiny beer parlor in Oakland, Calif., into a San Francisco-based food and drink corporation grossing $50 million a year and featuring an international chain of 21 restaurants proffering an eclectic South Seas decor, rum drinks garnished with flowers and fruit and an "exotic" cuisine carefully tailored to American middle-brow taste; of a stroke; in Hillsborough, Calif. "You can't eat real Polynesian food," he once protested, calling it "horrible junk." Having lost a leg at age six to tuberculosis...
...following Mitterrand's lead, was that rigor had to be sustained for another year or more, but that ways must be found to ease the pain of economic sacrifice. Mitterrand and the party leadership were responding to pressure from trade unions and Socialist rank and file. André Bergeron, leader of Force Ouvrière, an independent but largely pro-Socialist labor confederation, warned that "the government has reached limits that cannot be exceeded without jeopardizing the social equilibrium...
...Francisco, Victor Bergeron, owner of the 20-restaurant Trader Vic's chain, sent a cable to all members forbidding them to buy or sell either product. Then he personally smashed his last six bottles of Stolichnaya vodka. The five Fairmont hotels throughout the country also announced that they will not stock Russian vodka, or caviar from the Soviet Union or Iran. Though no figures are available, the boycott will have little effect. Most vodka consumed in the U.S. is domestically distilled; the liquor from the Soviet Union sells in limited quantity at high prices...
...palace since Giscard's election. They both agreed to come for consultations, as did Left Radical President Robert Fabre. Leading the rush to the Elysée were the heads of some of France's biggest trade unions, who had also been invited. They included André Bergeron of the 850,000-member Force Ouvrière and Edmond Maire, chief of the Socialist-leaning C.F.D.T., the 805,000-member Democratic Labor Confederation. This week Georges Séguy, the powerful boss of the 2.4 million-member C.G.T., is scheduled to make an unprecedented visit to Giscard...
...been published more or less regularly in a plant north of Paris with the aid of some Le Parisien Libéré printers who belong to the socialist Force Ouvrière, a union that does not recognize the strike. That labor organization's head, André Bergeron, escaped injury when a bomb exploded on his doorstep just a few minutes after the one that killed Cabanes. All together, government officials estimate, there have been some 150 acts of violence associated with the strike...