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...crowded courtroom fell silent as Richard G. Schultz, attorney for the McDonald's Corporation, approached the bench. Schultz, everyone there knew, was to defend his multi-million dollar client against charges of unfairly revoking the license of one Raymond Dayan, owner and operator of McDonald's franchises in Paris. Five hundred million dollars in damages was at stake. So was the entire French fast food market--one of the fastest-growing and most profitable such markets in the world. Reporters from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal scribbled furiously as Schultz addressed the Hon. Richard Curry...
...McDonald's claims that its Paris licensee, Raymond Dayan, has spoiled the company's image by serving food in grimy surroundings. Says a McDonald's spokesman: "Dayan's restaurants were so filthy that your clothes would be covered with grease if you stayed in there too long." The firm wants to take away Dayan's right to use McDonald's name for his 14 restaurants...
...Dayan, in turn, has filed two suits in Chicago, seeking to protect his franchise and collect $500 million in damages. He says that he was given the French franchise on unusually favorable terms, and that the corporation now wants to get it back. Dayan admits that he had trouble matching the firm's American standards at first, but insists that both food and cleanliness in his restaurants are now comparable to those in the U.S. Thousands of Parisians who have given up long lunches for le snack at McDonald's seem to agree...
...Arabs with nuclear bombs. This, said Saddam, would establish "a balance of terror" between the Arabs and Israel. Begin seized on Saddam's statements as proof that Israel had been right in its contention that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons and thus justified in bombing the facility. Moshe Dayan, former Israeli Foreign Minister, then became the first leading Israeli politician to admit publicly that Israel has "the ability to quickly produce nuclear weapons." However, Israel has said nothing about allegations that it already has a nuclear arsenal...
...agreement, Israel would not intervene directly in the conflict unless Syria used air power against the Christians. The revelations caused an outcry by the opposition, which charged that the agreement constituted a de facto peace treaty that circumvented requisite Knesset approval. TIME also learned last week that Begin, Moshe Dayan, then Foreign Minister, and Ezer Weizman, then Defense Minister, had met in Israel with Phalangist leaders as early...