Word: corsica
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...produces bland, look-alike autos, the company decided that it needed to give car buyers a peek at coming attractions. In a surprise marketing step, GM's Chevrolet division announced it would supply Avis, National and other car-rental agencies with several thousand advance models of its 1987 Corsica sedans and Beretta coupes. GM hopes that the cars, to be available for rent about three months ahead of their official March 12 debut, will turn some heads. The spiffy Chevrolets (estimated price: $8,500) represent GM's strongest answer yet to the popular styling of Ford's Tempo and Taurus...
...these achievements did not generate sufficient glamour, Antoine de Saint- Exupery also managed a death that was both heroic and mysterious. At 44, he had won permission to fly photoreconnaissance missions over his native France. On July 31, 1944, he took off from an Allied base in Corsica and never returned. He may have been forced down in the Mediterranean by two German fighter planes. No wreckage or remains were ever found...
...French agents nor the three-man crew of the spy yacht Ouvea, which allegedly had been sent from the French territory of New Caledonia to back up the operation. The real hitmen, claimed Le Monde, were two unidentified frogmen, probably from France's underwater demolition training base in Corsica, who were supplied with explosives by the support teams. They were said to have attached two mines to the Rainbow Warrior, first a smaller charge to force any occupants off the ship, and then a second one to sink the craft. The two frogmen disappeared without a trace...
...Auckland, police confirmed that Sophie and Alain Turenge, the French- speaking couple they arrested, are actually Dominique Prieur, a captain in the DGSE, and an as yet unnamed commander at the French naval commando center in Corsica, where underwater demolition divers are trained. The two are being held on charges of murder, arson and conspiracy. Police are searching for four alleged accomplices. More damaging evidence emerged last week from Politician Bernard Stasi, a member of the centrist opposition who was France's Minister of Overseas Territories in 1973 and 1974. Stasi told reporters that the intelligence agency had begun plotting...
...press reports, neither confirmed nor denied by the authorities over the weekend, the French government is sending to Iraq five highly sophisticated Super Etendard fighter-bombers. The planes, flown by French pilots, were said to have taken off from Landivisiau air base in Brittany, bound for southern France or Corsica prior to being handed over to Iraq...