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There is speculation in Paris that Reporters Le Gendre and Plenel received much of their information from the office of Interior Minister Pierre Joxe. He is an old-line Socialist who, according to one scenario, leaked the damaging details in order to lance the Greenpeace boil before it further threatened the government. Another possible motive for Joxe: to savage Hernu, a political rival. The rumors about Joxe's role as an informer multiplied so swiftly that Le Monde took the extraordinary step last week of running a small item under the byline Gorge Profonde, or Deep Throat, that said Joxe...
Robuchon is branching out. It comes as a surprise to see boil-in-bag main courses simmering away in his kitchen. "It will be used by the French railways for their first-class passengers on the Paris-to-Strasbourg route," the chef says. "It cooks for 14 hours, then it can be kept without freezing or preservatives for eight days. Now I test it in large quantities, then it will be packaged in portions." To Joel Robuchon, not even the sky's the limit. "Who knows?" he says wistfully. "May- be someday men will eat my food on the moon...
...protectionist pot is about to boil over," Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole proclaimed two weeks ago in Japan, where he headed a Senate trade delegation. He added, "I have never seen stronger congressional sentiment for acting on the trade front." Says S. Bruce Smart, Under Secretary of Commerce: "Industries have collectively created a fire storm of concern on Capitol Hill." Calls for tough action on imports are widespread. Senate Republican Charles Grassley of Iowa declared last week that "the Administration's approach has gotten us nowhere." Republican John Danforth of Missouri called the President's decision a "very serious mistake...
...Tamils," says a U.S. official, "have been on the losing end of Sri Lankan democracy for decades." Simmering unrest finally came to a boil in July 1983. After the Tigers killed 13 soldiers in an ambush, Sinhalese mobs ran wild through Colombo, killing at least 412 Tamils and leaving 100,000 others homeless...
...Doyle, recently appointed Floor Captain, brought his teammates to a boil in the third...