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...more, auto manufacturing is becoming a multinational business. Last week the French government approved the first deal in history under which companies from two countries, France's tire-making Michelin and Italy's car-making Fiat, will share control of a major auto manufacturer, France's Citroen. The companies had agreed on the outlines of the contract in 1968, but only now-long after De Gaulle had departed-did the government approve...
...time at the Ruby Bar in Pigalle, but Roger Delfau, 32, and his chum, Rene Corda, 26, were far from sated. They persuaded the tall brunette barmaid, Marie-Madeleine Irbah, 25, to join them for another drink. An hour later Marie-Madeleine found herself facing a pistol in a Citroen with reclining seats, parked in a lonely forest. At daybreak, she went to the police and reported that she had been raped repeatedly. The two men were convicted, fined $1,000 in damages, and sentenced to three years in prison...
...personally negotiated the deal with some friends, France's tiremaking Michelin family, which controls Citroën. Agnelli sought an outright takeover, but Charles de Gaulle objected and the French government limited Fiat to a 15% holding in the firm. In fact, Fiat will get effective control of Citroen through a complex holding-company arrangement. "Have no doubts about it," Agnelli told a friend. "The merger is complete." When the Fiat-Citroën "collaboration" formally begins this month, Agnelli will, in effect, preside over a combine with total sales of $3 billion and annual production of more than...
...enhance the N.L.F.'s aura of independence from Hanoi, Madame Binh and her five colleagues have taken special pains to dissociate themselves publicly from the representatives of North Viet Nam. She whisks about Paris in a rented black Citroen DS-21 flanked by two motorcycle policemen; the Viet Cong flag, a yellow star against a field of red and blue, flaps conspicuously from the fender. Her limousine has stopped at the Quai D'Orsay, where she paid a courtesy call on Herve Al-phand, former French Ambassador to the U.S. and now secretary-general of the French foreign...
...French, German, Belgian, Zambian, Biafran and Gabonese. Each afternoon, three or four planes taxi to the nearby military airfield for loading, then take off for Biafra at 6 p.m. sharp. They return around midnight, after the 900-mile round trip. Just as predictable as the flights is the black Citroen, owned by the French security police, that follows...