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...brilliant, late-summer sky above the eastern Mediterranean, F-14 jet fighters from the U.S. carrier Eisenhower roared over Beirut and headed toward the mountains of Lebanon. Only a few hours earlier, Super Etendard strike fighters from the French aircraft carrier Foch had conducted similar exercises. Officially, both the American and French warplanes were on reconnaissance flights. In reality, they were sounding a warning to Druze militiamen in the Chouf Mountains of Lebanon: from that day forward, the planes could be ordered to strike and destroy any artillery that continued to fire at troops of the four-country multinational force...
...where the smart money and the most luxurious dreams currently reside. When construction is finished within two years, 21 high-rise condominium towers will dominate the skyline west of Beverly Hills. They will outprice any concentration of privately owned apartments in the world, including Paris' fashionable Avenue Foch and the moneyed battlements of Manhattan's Park and Fifth Avenues...
...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...
...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...