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...demanded that President Jacques Chirac cancel a planned meeting with Algerian President Liamine Zeroual next week, suspend all aid to Algiers, and denounce next month's Algerian presidential election. "What the militants don't understand is that Chirac is planning to read Zeroual the riot act," TIME's Bruce Crumley reports from Paris. "He's going to tell him that France not only wants to see democratic elections, but wants to see democracy in every phase of the society. Regarding the terrorism, a problem for the French government is that the terrorists do not speak with one voice. So even...
French President Jacques Chirac is prepared to go through with controversial nuclear tests in the South Pacific at any moment despite waves of protest around the world today, TIME's Bruce Crumley reports. This afternoon, French navy commandos stormed two Greenpeace ships and arrested two divers near the South Pacific atoll targeted for tests. In Paris, more than 300 people were arrested as thousands demonstrated. In Switzerland, protesters occupied two diplomatic offices, and on Saturday, about 100 legislators from Japan, Europe, Australia and New Zealand plan to join up to 15,000 activists in French Polynesia. But Crumley says...
...cities carried effigies of French President Jacques Chirac, chained themselves to the gates of French diplomatic compounds or held angry rallies. French Prime Minister Alain Juppe, unmoved, said the tests were in the national interest. "The French have no pangs of conscience about that," says TIME Paris reporter Bruce Crumley. "And in France today, Greenpeace has absolutely no power...
...Front (RPF) said France is using the humanitarian zone in southwest Rwanda to protect the losing Hutu government, which the RPF blames for thousands of atrocities. While the rebels prepared late Tuesday to set up a government in the capital and declare a unilateral ceasefire, TIME Paris reporter Bruce Crumley says, the French are downplaying the chance of conflict. The French field troops, meanwhile, are left to wonder whether vengeful Tutsis will simply cut through their small force to claim total victory. "They're acting as a kind of human shield," Crumley says of the French. "But given the ethnicbreakdown...
...single (Philip Marlowe was a bachelor until Chandler's last, unfinished novel; Lew Archer lives alone, as does Spenser, although Spenser keeps company with Susan Silverman, a compassionate shrink). He is also short of cash and careless about his clothing. He is a two-fisted drinker (even though James Crumley's Milo Milodragovitch goes for peppermint schnapps) and sometimes drops his guard long enough to reveal a flash of erudition (Marlowe has atrocious taste in socks but can quote Browning). Touches of class cater to the tough-guy fantasies of the literati. Albert Camus, whose spare existential novels were influenced...