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...crowd of well-wishers, "I am leaving this city, but my heart will always be in Beirut." Arafat was warmly greeted by Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, whose government has strongly supported the P.L.O. Indeed, the Greek government welcomed Arafat with considerably more flamboyance than it accorded French President François Mitterrand, who arrived the same day for a state visit. On Friday, Arafat flew to Tunis, where he may set up new headquarters. This week he is expected to attend the Arab summit conference in Fez, Morocco...
...Luxembourg Gardens. He never got there. As startled passers-by looked on, Tanase was shoved into a car and spirited away. Since the missing writer had been an outspoken critic of Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu, human rights groups immediately blamed the Rumanian secret police. French President François Mitterrand warned that Tanase's disappearance could "seriously affect" relations between the two countries, and he postponed a visit to Rumania...
...French were clearly spoiling for a showdown. President François Mitterand's government had on Aug. 10 warned the four French-based pipeline suppliers that they would be "requisitioned" if they bowed to U.S. pressure. Last week Dresser-France was told that it would be the first to be taken over because its Soviet contracts called for the earliest delivery of equipment. Complained John James, chairman of the Texas parent firm, which lost an eleventh-hour battle to block...
...financial topic has been the subject of more consternation during the past three years than interest rates. And no wonder. The cost of borrowing money, which affects virtually every area of the economy, has been at the highest level since the Civil War. Last week's fran tic activity on Wall Street showed that professional investors believe that falling interest rates may drop even further. There is much less agreement, however, about their longer-range course...
Greene was outraged by the decision. "In my entire career as a writer," he said, "it is only the second book that's ever been banned. The first was The Comedians, and that was Papa Doc who seized it" (François Duvalier, Haiti's tyrannical dictator who died in 1971). The verdict against J'Accuse is not subject to further appeal...