Word: fran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from France's general discontent have all flowed to the United Left. Georges Marchais, 52, the bluff-spoken Communist leader, made major concessions when he agreed to form the union with the Socialists, a coalition of nonCommunist, leftist parties reorganized in 1965 by an old De Gaulle foe, François Mitterrand, 56. As a result, the union program is rather more socialist than Communist; it calls for nationalization of banks, insurance companies and major firms in "strategic industries." Even so, the prospect of even more government control in an economy that is already 12% nationalized worries many Frenchmen...
...book, which is the account of a solitary white boy's troubled 14th year on his family's ranch in southern Rhodesia, gracefully carries a fairly heavy load of earnest emotion. During a year of violent events that bring his childhood to an end, young François Joubert, whose Huguenot ancestors settled in Africa 300 years ago, encounters three men of extraordinary nobility: a Bushman-hunter, a prophet and healer, and a Matabele chief. Their influence moves him toward a rejection of European attitudes...
...chief thug and extortionist for the late François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, Luckner Cambronne used to be the second most feared man in Haiti. After Papa Doc's death in April last year, Cambronne appeared to be on the verge of becoming No. 1. Though Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, 21, succeeded his father as President for Life, it sometimes seemed in the early stages of his rule that the cunning Cambronne was actually pulling the strings of power. But last week Cambronne was headed into exile, a puppeteer apparently cut adrift by his puppet...
...forbids the operation except to save a woman's life. Nobel-prizewinning Biochemist Jacques Monod testified that, in his opinion, a fetus only a few weeks old could not be considered a "human being." Author Simone de Beauvoir denounced the law as an oppression of women, while Actresses Françoise Fabian and Delphine Seyrig said that they were equally guilty, since they too had had abortions...
After a scoreless third quarter, Lynch threw a 35-yard spiral to Fran Cremia for a Crimson score. Lynch's conversion gave Harvard a 14-6 edge over the Elis. But Yale's offensive squad deadlocked the score, 14-14, with a five-yard touchdown pass from McAndrews t John Fenick and a successful two-point conversion...