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...French the incident is mere history. When Napoleon passed through the Swiss village of Bourg St. Pierre on his way to Italy in 1800, his troops borrowed 80 pots and pans, uprooted 2,037 trees and took 3,150 logs to help transport their cannons across the snow-covered Great St. Bernard Pass. Napoleon sent an IOU promising, "I will reimburse everything." Since then the citizens of Bourg St. Pierre have been trying in vain to collect the 30,254 gold francs they say they are owed. When President François Mitterrand visited Switzerland last year, they politely reminded...
These signs of hope on the economic front were of small help for the delegates at Bourg-en-Bresse. Said a Socialist Deputy from the southwest: "If I go into my rural district and tell my constituents that the foreign trade deficit has improved, they just look at me." Pocketbook concerns also overshadowed Mitterrand's assertive foreign policies, including the dispatch of troops to Chad and Lebanon, and the maintenance of firm support for the Atlantic Alliance. Such moves are quietly disapproved of by his Communist allies and by small factions of his own party, but endorsed...
...other currencies, as it chooses. More important, a French cooperative, for example, deposits in Credit Lyonnais $1 million received from U.S. importers for Bordeaux wine; the bank can sell those dollars for other currencies if it wishes. Banks have a cold-blooded view of the potentialities. Says Jean Bourg, head of the currency department at Credit Lyonnais: "We take advantage of small opportunities [for profits in currency trading] as they arise during the day. We are not interested in trends, but in extremes and how to profit from them...
Offensively, Harvard will be strengthened by the availability of Jean- Pierre Gilbert as the Luxem bourg native finally won eligibility from the ECAC and NCAA over the weekend. Gilbert, a qualified soccer coach in this country, played midfield in Saturday's exhibition against the University of Dublin, but will move to forward today...
Faller defeated Phil Bourg of Missouri, 6-3. in his opening bout, and then pinned Grog Giordano of William and Mary before losing to Laurson, 4-0, in a latenight bout that concluded Thursday's action in the 158-pound weight class...