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...government get off so easily. After all, France had supported the Bokassa regime for 13 years and given it up to $100 million a year in aid. Giscard periodically flew off to hunt big game with the dictator and publicly hailed him as "my relative." Scoffed Socialist Leader François Mitterrand: "What do they mean, no bloodshed? Blood was flowing for years, and it was known in Paris. This comic emperor owed his power only to the complacency of French officials...
...Somerville Journal hit the stands late last Thursday. Fran Conti of Warner's Cable Channel 13 news department said yesterday people across the city bought copies of the paper in bulk quantity late that evening. Several news dealers ran out of papers, and the publishers of the Journal printed and distributed 6000 more copies on Friday...
They came- 19 people from all over France and their tour leader Françoise Simonin, 30 - because, simply, this is the U.S.: a part of their cultural consciousness, a place they felt they already knew well through movies, television and popular music. Well-traveled but speaking little English, the group had paid 10,400 francs each ($2,400) to tour all the sights the French insist on seeing: New York City, Niagara Falls, San Francisco, Los Angeles, the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Disney World in Orlando, and Washington...
Lately, no one has used children so well, or so lovingly, as François Truffaut. Jean-Pierre Léaud-one of Agee's "perfect people"-found the full range of adolescent feeling in The 400 Blows. The roots of the performance could be traced to Jean Vigo, whose Zero for Conduct (1933), made with no professional kids, is still the screen's greatest poem to youthful anarchy. The 400 Blows exerted a strong influence on George Roy Hill, who in 1964 made The World of Henry Orient, which is about two lovesick Manhattan schoolgirls. As Merrie...
...vote and did better as a consequence. One notable victor was French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who in fact first proposed the idea for a Euro-election back in 1974. In the popular vote Giscard's Union pour la Démocratic Française outpolled Gaullist Leader Chirac's Rassemblement pour la République, by 27.5% to 16.3%. In parliamentary elections only 15 months ago, the Chirac forces had won 22.6% to the Giscardians' 21.5%. Chirac's poor showing was a serious blow to his ambitions in the 1981 French...