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RESIGNED. Lucien Abenhaim, 52, French Surgeon-General, after an estimated 10,000 French died in the recent European heat wave, in Paris. Health Minister Jean-Fran?ois Mattei said Abenha?m failed "to provide us with the information and warning signal that we should have had."
The Gate, the memoirs of Fran?ois Bizot, a French scholar of Cambodian Buddhism who plausibly claims to be the only Westerner released from a Khmer Rouge prison?a jungle hellhole called Anlong Veng?now delivers a cruel, irrefutable indictment. The book is at once a major historical document, informed by...
Keep the Russians out, the Germans down and the Americans in." During the Cold War, that simple slogan pretty much summed up NATO's purpose as far as Europe was concerned. Those days are long gone. This week the leaders of the 19 North Atlantic Treaty Organization member countries gather...
The old cowboy of French politics is sitting tall in the saddle again. Six months after his re-election to the French presidency, Jacques Chirac is out to shoot down those who presumed to write off his country as a serious international player. Over the past two weeks, Chirac forced...
The referendum comes a year after a large majority of Swiss turned down a proposal to start negotiating to join the European Union. But the federal government - which has been pushing for a "yes to the U.N." vote - is hoping last year's result is not an omen. Indeed, it...