Word: francoise
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Immigrant journalism is often colored by homeland politics. San Francisco's eight Chinese-language papers tend to side with either Taiwan or the People's Republic. The Haiti Observateur, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based weekly with a circulation of 45,000, was founded in 1971 as a challenge to Francois ("Papa...
To shake things up, it took another wave of immigrants: the influx of sophisticated foreign films in the late '50s and early '60s. Soon every young Hollywood hotshot wanted to make movies just like Fellini's, or Bergman's, or Francois Truffaut's. A picture's subject could be uniquely...
When French President Francois Mitterrand attended the biennial Paris Air Show in 1981, many of the bombs, cannons and rockets had to be hidden, and advanced Mirage 2000 jet fighters streaked overhead stripped of their air-to-air missiles. Things were different when Mitterrand visited the current air show and...
According to the U.S. Congressional Research Service, France ranked second only to the Soviet Union in arms orders from the Third World in 1984. Marcel de Picciotto, vice president of Matra, a French arms company, says that "any country that doesn't want to have its strings pulled by Washington...
The tall, ruddy-cheeked West German and the pale, intense Frenchman stood outside the monastery church at Birnau, overlooking Lake Constance, near the West German-Swiss border. A Cistercian monk uttered words of welcome. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl lifted his arms to the skies, clear after a daylong rain...