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...dispute between the two capitals over just what was said between Reagan and the Chancellor, there is no doubt that Kohl made an emotional appeal for the President to join him in appearing at a German military cemetery. Kohl had clasped hands on Sept. 22 with France's President Fran??ois Mitterrand at a World War I cemetery in Verdun, where German as well as French soldiers are buried, and had found it a gratifying experience. Kohl mentioned Bitburg as a likely site for a similar ceremony with Reagan. The President agreed with the idea in principle, while not committing...
French unemployment, which affects 10% of the work force, is a greater problem than West Germany's, according to Chevalier, because the percentage of jobless youth is significantly higher. He forecasts that unemployment will increase to 11% next year. That is bad news for President Fran??ois Mitterrand's government, which faces a national election...
Although set in the '20s, this is the '60s film par excellence. Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre) both love the free-spirited Catherine (Jeanne Moreau), who bunks with each of them. Unofficially remade dozens of times (most recently by Bernardo Bertolucci as The Dreamers), Fran??ois Truffaut's 1962 valentine to not-so-free love explored the geometry of the romantic triangle with a scientist's precision and a poet's wisdom. The confusions of love never seemed so radiant...
DIED. MORRIS ENGEL, 86, filmmaker whose 1953 Little Fugitive--a $30,000, documentary-style tale of a boy who runs away because he mistakenly believes he has killed his brother--brought him an Oscar nomination, international acclaim and credit from such directors as Fran??ois Truffaut and John Cassavetes for influencing the emerging indie-film movement; in New York City...
French executive Fran??ois-Henri Pinault is following in the footsteps of his tycoon papa Fran??ois. This month Pinault Jr., 42, was appointed chairman of the $22 billion luxury-goods and retail empire PPR, founded by Pinault Sr. in 1963. He takes over from Serge Weinberg, who led PPR's diversification into luxury goods with the purchase of the Gucci group in 2001. Though Pinault is the scion of France's third wealthiest family--which owns a 42% controlling interest in PPR--he has also headed several PPR units. Instead of the nickname Daddy's Boy, he has earned...