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DIED. LARRY COLLINS, 75, bestselling author, with Dominique Lapierre, of a series of meticulously researched historical page-turners, most famously 1964's Is Paris Burning?, which recounted Hitler's plan to torch the French capital if the Allies recaptured it; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Frejus, France...
Saddled with the task of restoring at least a semblance of normality is the country's new leader, Moussa Traore, 32, an army lieutenant who graduated first in his class from France's Overseas Officers' School at Frejus some years ago. Under his direction, the National Liberation Committee has moved quickly to consolidate its rule. It ordered statues and portraits of the imposing Keita torn down, the Red Guard militia abolished. Free elections have been promised, and private enterprise has been invited into the country. Clearly, the new rulers of the former French colony were abandoning Keita...
Under no obligation to please anyone but its audience, Europe Number One tries to stick to the facts. Time and again, its hard-driving news squads have scored impressive beats on RTF. In 1959 Europe Number One scooped RTF by six hours with on-the-scene recordings of the Frejus Dam break. During last summer's peasant sitdown strike in Brittany, RTF prudently quoted Lc Figaro, a Parisian daily that put the rosiest possible complexion on the strike; Number One's mikes picked up, live, the protests of the Breton peasants themselves...
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