Word: french
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power to sustain him. Although Helms points no public fingers at past failures that produced the current upheaval, it is obvious that he finds Washington's response lethargic and uncomprehending. Not only would he get tough with the Russians, he would also be firm with the British, French and Germans, who have an immense stake in Middle East oil. The Israelis, too, have a huge interest in Iran and her oil; surely they could find a way to help...
...prime mover behind the latest plan for monetary union was West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who was especially unhappy at the threats to his country's exports and the general economic instability caused by the slumping dollar. Schmidt enlisted the help of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to convince other E.C. leaders that it was time to act. He argued that "a zone of monetary stability" was necessary to revive lagging economic growth, slow inflation and make Europe immune from the dollar's malaise...
...Boston Camerata, Joel Cohen director, Desmar). The album of folk-inspired Christmas music, a welcome change from today's homogenized carols, ranges from a 12th century Latin tune, Ad cantus leticie, to a rousing Gloucestershire Wassail from modern Britain. Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Mass, based on French Christmas carols, is a graceful work, and the voices of The Boston Camerata are perfectly balanced...
...Jean Paul Belmondo doesn't consider himself a sex symbol." This intelligence comes from Raquel Welch, presumably an expert on the subject; she once acted with the French star in L 'Animal. Nevertheless, Belmondo's charm leaves millions of Frenchwomen à bout de souffle. In Flic ou Voyou, Belmondo's latest film, he plays a cop disguised as a gangster and gets entangled in fistfights. In more civilized moments off the set, Belmondo brushes up on his tennis. Even a nonsex symbol needs a touch of love...
...Colonel Hakim Félix Ellellou, Kush's Muslim-Marxist President, such imports are ideological and theological blasphemies. Yet Ellellou himself has had his head turned by the West. At 17, he left his native village to join the French colo nial army. He served in Indochina before Dien Bien Phu and spent the middle '50s studying liberal arts in Wisconsin. Back home, married to a white college sweet heart, Ellelloū rose through the ranks under a French-puppet king and then emerged as the leader of the coup that put him in power...