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...Armored Division helped liberate Paris 60 years ago last week, a 24-year-old Algerian Jew named Robert Elbeze marched in its ranks. He went on to marry a woman from an Alsatian Jewish family, settle in Paris' historically Jewish Marais neighborhood and raise a family as a proud citizen of the French republic. His son Alain is still here, but his faith in the republic is gone. Disturbed by the increasing pace of attacks against Jews and their property in France, Alain Elbeze, 52, has resolved to move with his wife and five children to Israel. "Look at this...
...affirm the republican values of equality and fraternity. But it's like pressing a button that doesn't work anymore." Especially in the socially underprivileged banlieues, where Jewish-Muslim tension is highest, the appeal to shared citizenship is more apt to reap mockery than reverence. "Being a citizen of France used to give everyone a kind of bulletproof vest, but now it's fallen off and we see each other as Jews, Arabs, whatever," Sebban says. Sebban tried Israel in the 1990s; he lasted four years. "It was a big disappointment," he says. He feels that many French Jews...
...travel documents from a third country, which might prove to be a virtual get-out-of-jail-free card. While requests to a variety of countries for asylum have so far come to nothing, Bosnitch says a German passport remains a possibility: "Because Bobby's father was a German citizen, Bobby is a German citizen. But since Bobby has never asserted that citizenship before, he doesn't have a passport. We are in the process of collecting the necessary documents." A German official acknowledges that Fischer's supporters have started the process, adding: "What we've been presented with...
...reserves, and Bush made a specific proposal for a "risk contract," which meant the U.S. would share in the production of oil in China?a breakthrough and a move relevant to Deng's economic reforms of November 1978. In February 1979, the two men (Bush was then a private citizen) discussed Taiwan frankly and constructively. Six years later, Bush asked Deng to introduce him to the next generation of Chinese leaders, and in 1989?by which time Bush was President?he risked savage denunciation in the U.S. in his attempts to sustain relations with China while still imposing strict sanctions...
...handedly created divisiveness in the U.S. [Dec. 1]. He became President of a nation already divided by numerous issues?abortion, the death penalty, affirmative action, family values, marriage, national security, welfare, the environment, taxes and so forth. Bush naturally takes a position on each issue, just as every other citizen does. He cannot conceivably support all sides. Anne-Marie Shaffer Palm Coast...