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...tide of opposition to France's atmospheric testing has been growing for months. In May the Australian Council of Trade Unions ordered all French goods coming into the country embargoed at the country's ports (it lifted the ban only occasionally to allow distribution of cargoes like Camembert cheese that threatened to befoul Melbourne's port). Mail service with France has been cut off, and at least one restaurant put a sign in its window announcing that it would not serve French customers. The International Court of Justice at The Hague had handed down a temporary injunction...
...never encountered the current level of outrage. The New Zealand government ordered a frigate, with a cabinet minister aboard, to steam into the test area. The World Health Organization called for an immediate halt to the French plans. Australian trade unions refused to handle French imports, from Camembert cheese to cosmetics; they also let 1,000 bags of mail from France pile up in the post offices. Somewhat ghoulishly, the girls at a Melbourne high school sent an invitation in French to President Pompidou to attend their funerals "á une date uncertaine-cela dépend en vous." Yet another...
...Boorman's Point Blank. Hodges has not only got his distance in Pulp; he has also found a style and voice of his own. He is constantly, ebulliently inventive, whether in the scrupulously outrageous dialogue ("I expected the place to be crawling with cops, like maggots in a Camembert") or in one of the many dazzling visual jokes, like a group of Italian priests squirming through the humiliation of a police lineup...
Polnareff: Pourquoi pas? The image of my country shouldn't be limited to the fountains of Versailles and Camembert cheese...
...imported from the capitalist West as well as from the Communist East. No fewer than 7,000,000 tourists from East Germany and other Soviet-bloc countries swarmed into Czechoslovakia this year in pursuit of luxuries not readily available at home. These include Spanish bananas and oranges, Italian shoes, Camembert cheese and Beaujolais from France, and Czechoslovak brassières and girdles that, at long last, are beginning to encase Russian and East European flab in tough new elastic...