Word: french
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...late 1970s Frenchmen of every political persuasion welcomed the Vietnamese boat people, and today the Indochinese refugee community, with more than 100,000 members, is one of the city's largest. Inevitably, the anxiety level of Paris, and its people, rises sharply in a time of violence. But French Historian Pierre Chaunu warns against linking the current outrages with the country's traditional tolerance of outsiders. Says he: "The terrorists are not emigres or political exiles. They are tourists who come to France not to assimilate or to make new lives for themselves but to kill...
...explosion outside Tati was the fifth terrorist bombing to hit the French capital in ten days. Only two days earlier, a violent blast in the driver's license section of Paris police headquarters had killed one and injured 51. Like that attack and others earlier at a post office, a cafeteria and a pub, the Tati outrage appeared to be the work of the Committee for Solidarity with Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners (C.S.P.P.A.). The shadowy organization, apparently made up of Marxist Maronite Christians and based in Lebanon, has claimed responsibility for ten Paris bombings over the past nine...
...nervous public mood was reflected in the headlines that hit newsstands. PARIS PANIC! screamed Le Matin. PARIS-BEIRUT, read Le Parisien Libere. Over the next few days the parallel with the Middle East nightmare was eerily driven home as militant Lebanese Shi'ite Muslims fired on French peacekeeping troops in southern Lebanon, and Colonel Christian Goutierre, 54, the French military attache in Beirut, was gunned down. Responsibility for the assassination was claimed by the Revenge and Justice Front, a group that has no known links to the C.S.P.P.A...
...Some French feared last week that such tactics might trigger a backlash against all Arabs living in Paris. But most Parisians were more concerned about their safety. "I find it very worrying," said Agnes Cavroy, 26, an advertising-agency employee. "You are at the mercy of the bombs." Some far- right politicians talked guardedly about invoking Article 16 of the constitution, giving the President power to rule by decree during a national emergency. At the moment such a measure seems farfetched, but its very mention attested to the siege mentality that has seized Paris...
...inadvertent." For example: Nixon's comments to reporters at the Great Wall of China ("It's truly a great wall"), to a motorcycle policeman who had just broken his arm and leg in an accident at the head of a presidential motorcade ("How do you like your job?"), to French dignitaries gathered for the & funeral of Charles de Gaulle ("It's a great day for Paris"). Buchwald noted that the presidency always provides good material. "Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women...