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...million women have an abortion every year in France. I declare that I am one of them." Who? Actresses Catherine Deneuve, Jeanne Moreau and Micheline Presle, Writers Françoise Sagan and Simone de Beauvoir-plus 338 other Frenchwomen who signed a statement that was published in a Paris weekly last week favoring legalized abortion. The admission made each one of them liable to a fine of up to $1,300 and six months to two years in jail, though most women who are apprehended get suspended sentences. One of the few female headliners whose names were missing was Brigitte...
...HOURS OF SUNLIGHT by Françoise Sagan. 185 pages. Harper...
...crash took the lives of ten men, including several of Tri's aides and Newsweek Correspondent François Sully (see THE PRESS). According to an official government account, there was a mechanical failure that set off an explosion aboard the craft while it was 100 feet in the air. Predictably, Saigon's busy gossip mills ground out another version: Tri was the victim of an elaborate conspiracy-the standard and not always inaccurate explanation for anything that happens in South Viet Nam. He was shot down, so the story went, by personal or political enemies. U.S. intelligence...
Last week, a VNAF chopper, carrying Newsweek Correspondent François Sully, General Do Cao Tri and eight others to a staging area in Cambodia, exploded shortly after takeoff and crashed in flames. All were killed. The urbane, Paris-born Sully, 43, was a bon vivant with a penchant for tailored shirts and vintage wine. He first came to Indochina in the mid-1940s, and, as a combat correspondent for TIME, was one of the last newsmen to leave Dienbienphu before it fell in 1954. He was the 34th journalist to be killed in Indochina since 1965 (another...
...There's only one thing that counts and that's his speed." Unlike Bonnet, who was always referred to as "Monsieur," Béranger is on a first-name basis with team members, who praise him lavishly. "He knows how to talk to teen-age girls," explains Françoise Macchi, 19. "He's young, and he understands our problems...