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France may have convicted former Vichy government official Maurice Papon of complicity in crimes against humanity, but the nation?s mixed feelings about the Nazi era persist. ?The verdict is anticlimactic,? says TIME Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley. Papon was sentenced to 10 years in prison for deporting Jews to Auschwitz, but a two-year appeal process makes it unlikely the ailing 87-year-old will ever serve time...
...result, says TIME correspondent Bruce Crumley, is an indication not so much that the center has been eradicated but that it has been successfully occupied by the Socialists. ?This is a vote of confidence in the left?s responsible management of the country,? says Crumley. This week the parties of President Chirac?s center-right alliance face the temptation of holding on to regional premierships by making alliances with the National Front -- the real danger to the center lies in the prospect that they may succumb...
...neither his legendary charm nor France?s lingering nostalgia for revolutionary leftism will give Carlos the Jackal much sympathy, says TIME's Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley: "Rather than representing any single cause, he was a roving terrorist who put his deadly skills up for hire...
...Crumley doesn't doubt he's going down. But, he adds, "what will fascinate people is the image of a terrorist with all these gadgets, who could shoot his way out of trouble, had access to the apartments of young women all over Europe, and who, despite being the most wanted man in the world, appeared to be able to move in and out of Western countries at will." The anti-James Bond, in other words...
...Crumley doesn't doubt he's going down. But, he adds, "what will fascinate people is the image of a terrorist with all these gadgets, who could shoot his way out of trouble, had access to the apartments of young women all over Europe, and who, despite being the most wanted man in the world, appeared to be able to move in and out of Western countries at will." The anti-James Bond, in other words...