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...Camp Raffali in Corsica, officers and men of the Deuxèeme REP (Second Foreign Parachute Regiment) listened in silence to radio newscasts from Zaire. There was no sign of mourning when Foreign Legion casualties from their unit were announced, even though punishment squads of delinquent recruits were already digging graves in a military cemetery near the legion's paratroop base. "If they get you, they get you," said a veteran. "One legionnaire is worth 20 of the opposition...
...favorite male chauvinist taunt is that men make not only the best chefs (Carêeme, Escoffier) but the most demanding gourmets too. To kill the latter canard, New York magazine's food maven Gael Greene helped organize a ladies' feast at Manhattan's posh Four Seasons restaurant. One of France's premier chefs (helas, un homme), Paul Bocuse, whose Lyons restaurant bears his name as well as the Guide Michelin's esteemed three stars, flew over the day before the banquet burdened with such Gallic specialties as pate de foie gras, truffles, Mediterranean bass...
...great vigor of all the color is a reminder of the vermilion uniforms which Goya so well recorded in his court portraits or the beautiful black, white and blue of the portrait in the Museum of Eme Arts...
...secrets is unpleasant, but the right of a government to have secrets in which its citizens do not share is even more questionable. Nations have too often been decoyed into war by misunderstanding when a correctly informed public opinion might have saved the day. Bismark's meddling with the Eme telegram and similar incidents are already sufficiently notorious. Yet diplomacy still continues to wrap itself in the shroud of secrecy which it acquired in the poison dagger atmosphere of the renaissance. But despite its occasional Machiavellian characteristics, state craft, unlike necromancy, does not properly belong to the black arts...
...eme on "Musikus Miller" or Act V of "Kabale and Liebe" is due in German 3 today...