Word: du
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eyed man with the droopy mustache returned to Paris' fashionable Hôtel Résidence Saint-Honoré at 7:30 on a Friday evening. When he walked in, the men waiting for him identified themselves as agents of the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST), the French counterintelligence agency. They asked him to come to headquarters for a routine identity check. He did so without protest. Four days later the suspect was released-thereby touching off one of the most explosive international brouhahas in years. The affair triggered political repercussions from the Quai d'Orsay...
...Canard accused the government of committing a "Watergaffe." It believed that the eavesdroppers were from the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST), the French counterintelligence service. It even published names of eleven suspects unearthed by its own reporters. The Interior Ministry promptly classified the work of the eleven agents top secret, thus making them immune from any court questioning...
With the eight-week-old truce, imposed by an Arab peace-keeping force dominated by Syrians, restaurants have begun serving after dark for the first time in months, and nightclubs like the opulent Casino du Liban are jumping once more. Movie theaters reopened with a run of The Exorcist-which most Beirutis found tame compared with the all-too-real horrors they had experienced during the fighting...
...controls, or 1962, when President Kennedy marshaled all the power of the White House to force a steel-price rollback. Still, steel men note caustically, aluminum makers in November announced price increases of as much as 11 % on some products without drawing any special political comment. Even more striking, Du Pont raised the price of Dacron staple fiber up to 10%; yet Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro was welcomed to a long conference between Carter, his economic aides and some businessmen at which the participants discussed, among other things, what to do about steel prices...
...Gaulle's old 1947 movement was called the Rassemblement du Peuple Fran...