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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elsewhere in Europe, the nuclear catastrophe seemed to have faded from memory. French shoppers who once used Geiger counters to help them select produce during the height of the radiation scare now buy fruits and vegetables without concern. In West Germany, though, 20 institutes and eight community groups continue to monitor samples of suspected foods. Checks recently found excessive radiation in certain chocolates, dried mushrooms and beef...
...years before Pagnol's widow relented to him. Determined . to make a separate film of each portion of the novel simultaneously and equally committed to show the passing of seasons and years and their effects on his characters, he ended with the most expensive ($17 million) project in French film history...
...Iranian embassy in Paris was surrounded by police last week, and soon the Iranian government retaliated by cordoning off the French embassy in Tehran in a confrontation that Paris newspapers dubbed the "battle of the embassies." At the center of the controversy was Wadid Gordji, 34, an interpreter at the Iranian embassy. French authorities, who believe he is actually a high-ranking Iranian intelligence official, recently tried to question him about a rash of / terrorist bombings in Paris last fall. At the time, the French assumed the attacks were the work of a Lebanese clan seeking the freedom...
Gordji fled to his embassy, where the Iranian charge d'affaires last week gave an angry press conference -- with Gordji as his interpreter. French officials vowed to take a hard line on the affair. But with six French hostages believed to be held by pro-Iranian factions in Lebanon -- and the 1979-81 U.S. embassy siege in Tehran still in the public mind -- France is, as one official conceded, "at a distinct disadvantage...
Because he publicly criticized the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov spent nearly seven years of internal exile in the closed city of Gorky. At a ceremony in Moscow last week inducting him into the French Academy of Sciences, Sakharov, who was allowed to return home last December, accused fellow members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences of spreading "cock-and-bull stories" about his supposedly "tranquil life" in Gorky. On the contrary, he said, he suffered psychological torture and frequent harassment while in exile. Despite the current policy of glasnost (openness), a newspaper account of the ceremony...