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Soilih, in fact, was apparently still under the influence of hash one night last May when 30 white mercenaries tiptoed onto a beach near the capital city of Moroni. They were led by French-born Colonel Robert Denard, 50, a notorious soldier of fortune who has left his bloody footprints in countless African battles in the past 23 years. As foretold, Denard was accompanied by a German shepherd dog. Within a few hours, Denard and his gang had shot up Soilih's bodyguard, put the dictator under arrest and accepted the surrender of the Comoran army, a ragtag force...
...enemy guns from returning to that hillock. Giora Reuveny, 30, is a member of Tomer, a budding Jewish settlement in the sunny Jordan Valley; proudly surveying his six acres of corn, tomatoes and eggplants, he admits to the appeal of the good life at Tomer. Ruth Berchlingue, 46, a French-born Jew, came to Kiryat Arba for religious reasons, and cites Genesis 23:9 as proof that Abraham bought the land she is living...
Bolling, a French-born composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist, wrote the suite especially for the world-renowned classical flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal. The two recorded the piece (with drums and bass) in 1975 on the Columbia label. The album has been a bestseller for three years...
...Says French-born Claude Rouas, who owns four excellent restaurants in San Francisco: "I have been in this country for 17 years, and there is simply no comparison between then and now. The taste buds have become very cultivated." No doubt about it, attests Author-Chef Jacques Pépin (La Technique), "American home cooks today are the best in the world outside France and China...
Today that life is divided comfortably between a weekend château near Tours and an apartment on the fashionable Rue de Rivoli, where Salinger lives and writes with his second wife Nicole and their son Gregory, 11. Though he learned the language of diplomacy from his French-born mother and grandmother as a boy in San Francisco ("If you didn't speak French in our house, you didn't eat"), he does his columns in English, then approves a L'Express translation...