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All of which means Coluche is no joke to France's political Establishment. No other candidate for the Elysée Palace, left or right, has excited such a public response. In nightly routines that have turned into informal campaign speeches, Coluche presents himself as the champion of voters...
When French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing took office in 1974, he promised to loosen the tight control that the Elysée Palace had maintained over French life, especially the press. Battle-weary French journalists looked forward to a new era of peaceful coexistence. As Finance...
In Paris, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing told Tariq Aziz that the crisis was a "bilateral affair," best solved by the region's Islamic states. An Elysée spokesman later said that no spare parts for French weapons in the Iraqi arsenal would be forthcoming while...
Frenchmen in the mass, alas, have succumbed to American fast food. McDonald's has hamburger dispensaries all over Paris, and Burger King has opened a shop on the Champs-Elysées. But the French have launched a spirited counterattack. Their ammunition is the croissant, the flaky, crescent-shaped...
In the meantime, an organization of relatives known as FLAG (Family Liaison Action Group) sent four of its members to Western Europe in an effort to arouse sympathy for the hostages. The four women were surprisingly successful in gaining admittance to high officials-so successful, in fact, that they were...