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Thinking in French. The main expression of the tradition is the historic and conscious effort poured into the 69 Lycées Français around the world, known for their scholastic excellence in the mold of the system that in France itself educates 1.5 million students be tween the ages of eleven and 18. Most outsiders, and perhaps many of the parents who pay lycée tuitions ranging from about $6 in Saarbrücken to $200 in Madrid, Istanbul and Mexico City, think of the overseas lycées as largely local institutions. Actually they are supported...
Since Dictator François Duvalier took power in Haiti seven years ago, thousands upon thousands of Haitians have fled into exile, most of them crossing into the Dominican Republic. The few who returned to fight Duvalier invariably met defeat-and often a grisly death-at the hands of the dictator's henchmen. Last week, a month after Duvalier proclaimed himself "President for life," another small exile band was back in Haiti, attempting to stir up a guerrilla...
...scraps of paper came in pink, red, green, blue and yellow. But they all said the same thing: "Citizen Dr. François Duvalier, President of the Republic, will exercise for life his high functions according to Article 92 of the present constitution. Does this conform to your wishes? And do you ratify it?" At the bottom, in big black letters, was the word...
Died. Henri Borgeaud, 68, one of the wealthiest and most influential Europeans in Algeria, an unswerving champion of "Algérie Française who was a French Senator for Algiers from 1946 to 1959, upholding the conservative colonial cause so vehemently that Moslem terrorists machine-gunned his car in Paris in 1957 (he escaped uninjured) and Ben Bella last year saw fit to confiscate all his lands and industrial holdings, valued at close to $100 million; in Paris...
Sees two ice-cold chocolate Maltecs cream his sweetie pie (Françoise Dorleac...