Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party, with its ideology bankrupt, offers only order and is begging for faith -- and not getting it. How long can a government like that retain control and stay in power? "A regime that . . . is forced to fire on the young, who protest in the name of liberty," said French President Francois Mitterrand after Tiananmen, "has no future...
...visited the U.S. for the first time last month, he found himself constantly fielding questions about last June's student massacre in Beijing. Even a Broadway night out offered no respite. "I took my wife to see the play Les Miserables," he says. "Watching the portrayal of the French students at the barricades, I was thinking of the wide-eyed youth in Tiananmen Square...
...alleges Toronto author James Bacque in Other Losses (Stoddart Publishing), a controversial Canadian best seller that claims at least 960,000 German soldiers died in U.S. and French army camps in the final months of World War II and afterward. They were victims of deliberate neglect, says Bacque, because Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower withheld sustenance from a despised enemy...
...disaster had the haunting familiarity of a recurring nightmare. On Tuesday afternoon Flight 772, a DC-10 of the French airline UTA bound from Brazzaville to Paris, left the runway after its scheduled stopover in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad. Twenty minutes into the flight, Captain Georges Ravenaud radioed the airport to report that all was normal. Flight 772 was never heard from again. High above the desolate Tenere desert in neighboring Niger, the plane exploded, killing all 157 passengers and its 14- member crew. Among those aboard were seven Americans, including Bonnie Pugh, wife of the U.S. Ambassador...
...Histoire is a seven-volume collection printed during the French Revolution on well-preserved, ragbased paper that makes a crinkling sound when touched...