Word: foch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...routine trip-for 150 yards. Chauffeur Jean Denis wheeled his gray Peugeot 604 out of the apartment-house garage on Paris' Avenue Foch, scarcely noticing the motorbike ahead of him or the blue van behind. He slowed to ease around another van that was double parked. The cyclist then stopped, hopped off his bike and walked back waving a pistol. Men sprang from the parked van and pulled Denis from the car. The last thing the chauffeur saw was the Peugeot moving off with his boss in the back, imprisoned by men on either side...
...warning to the republic's neighbors that they should not interfere with Djibouti before independence, France beefed up the garrison with 1,000 extra paratroopers and legionnaires. The carrier Foch came steaming into the harbor, a symbol of both celebration and precaution. For a time after independence, the French will continue to guard the republic's frontiers against aggression (the Somalian border is only ten miles from downtown Djibouti, Ethiopia a mere 50 miles away). But diplomats here speculate that France will withdraw entirely if a major struggle erupts over Djibouti, rather than risk involvement...
...think you've been jaded by violence on TV, it's nothing until you've seen it in real life," one Foch St. resident who had seen the corpse of a dead woman on the street recalled yesterday. Even her cat, who usually sleeps on the ledge outside her house, was throwing up after the incident and having one of his "thunder and lightning storm fits," she added...
...crew-cut resident spoke patriotically of Foch St., and said that he would not move because of the shooting. "It's a very good neighborhood," he said, "Otherwise, I wouldn't live here...
...mentioned that he has lived on Foch St. for 20 years, about average in the neighborhood where many families have lived for up to 50 years...