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Brandt, Veil and the heir to the nonexistent Habsburg throne were not the only illustrious names to be chosen as members of a star-studded new political forum for Western Europe. Such notable party leaders as Italy's Communist chief Enrico Berlinguer, France's Socialist leader François Mitterrand and the Gaullists' Jacques Chirac also won election as the heads of their parties' lists of candidates. Some of them, though, were expected to yield their seats to underlings...
...some of the nastiest transatlantic name-calling in years. The West German Economics Minister, Count Otto Lambsdorff, expressed "surprise and regret" at the U.S. subsidy. One of his assistants captured the prevailing sentiment: "It hurts when your friends stab you in the back." In Washington, French Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet led a weeklong parade of protesting diplomats through the White House. François-Poncet got a mere 15-minute meeting with President Carter, and that reflected the crisp indifference that the Administration seemed to be showing...
...When good Americans die," said Oscar Wilde, "they go to Paris." For anyone who has not planned on the trip, there is the Comédie-Française, a glorious traveling museum that has been presenting French classical drama for 299 years and sees little sense in breaking up a winning combination. A fortnight ago the Comédie opened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with Molière's Le Misanthrope as part of a four-week visit to New York and Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center. It will also present Feydeau...
...Alceste and Célimène, François Beaulieu and Béatrice Agenin project modern, realistic feeling at the expense of classical eloquence. During his tirades against mankind, Beaulieu runs through the Alexandrines and casts caesuras to the winds. But he builds sympathy by the low-key, unstylized way he plays the love scenes. Agenin, too, is better at intimacy than poetic elegance. She is a wonder, though, at dispensing petits fours and nasty court gossip to a fine pair of dandies whose wigs make them resemble Bert Lahr playing the Cowardly Lion. When she leans back...
...explosive as the blast itself was a bomb of a question: Who had pulled off the nuclear sabotage? An environmental organization calling itself Groupe des Écologistes Français claimed responsibility. No one had ever heard of the group before the explosion, and French authorities dismissed its claims. But by imposing a blackout on news of the police investigation, government officials inspired speculation in the press about possible, and some rather impossible, culprits. France Soir reported that the police believed "extreme leftists" had planted the explosives. Le Matin de Paris suggested that the act had been committed by Palestinians...