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...also been accused of being involved in plots to kill South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963, Haitian Dictator François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier that same year, Congo Nationalist Patrice Lumumba in 1961 and Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1961. Last week TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich, who has spent four years researching a book on Trujillo's assassination, reported that the CIA actually was involved in three plots to kill the dictator. In 1958 the agency promised to provide a group of dissident Dominicans with a sharpshooter and rifle if they could induce...
...group demanded support from Françoise Giroud, State Secretary for Women's Affairs, and even from President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Recalling Giscard's campaign promise to be "President of all the French," the hookers noted logically that he was "thus President of the prostitutes." "Why should we be considered marginal members of society?" demanded Ulla, a comely mid-20s blonde who was declared spokesperson for the group. The ladies got more support from a friendly Lyon public, in the form of free food and drink, than from the government. State Secretary Giroud referred...
France, too, has an emergent superstar. Isabelle Adjani, 19, is "the only actress who has made me cry in front of a television screen," said Director François Truffaut after seeing her in Giraudoux's Ondine. Truffaut signed her for an epic role, the doomed daughter of Victor Hugo in The Story of Adele H, to be released this fall. "I wanted to do a film with her very quickly," he explained, "because I thought I could steal from her those precious things-the way her face and body express everything...
...grand passions, great dreams and intense drama. Ever since she was a schoolgirl in the Paris suburb of Gennevilliers, people have wanted to make her a star. At 17 she was made one of the youngest members in France's oldest acting ensemble, the Comédie Française. In her first season, she played Agnes in The School for Wives. When Jean-Loup Dabadie, one of France's leading screenwriters (Cesar and Rosalie) saw her in 1973, he wrote a comedy of the generation gap, La Gifle (A Slap in the Face) for her. When...
Power hitter sophomore Tom Joyce and slick fielding juniors Barry and Fran Cronin (no relation) added depth to the team...