Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jean-Bernard Raimond, 60, a respected career diplomat who has been serving as French Ambassador to Moscow, received the Foreign Affairs portfolio...
Andre Giraud, 60, who made his mark as a strong advocate of government- supported nuclear-energy programs and has favored French participation in plans for the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, will head the Defense Ministry...
...past month, after classes at Princeton, Brooke Shields has been slipping into New York City to rehearse, and last week she made her off- Broadway debut in Marguerite Duras' 1977 play The Eden Cinema. The setting is French Indochina during the 1930s, and Shields, 20, portrays Suzanne, a fetching 16-year-old who is courted by a rich plantation owner. Director Francoise Kourilsky approached her for the part last year. Shields, who is majoring in French literature and had studied Duras' work at school, readily accepted her first professional nonmovie role. "She is a very strong actress," says Kourilsky...
...Stephanie reports that her latest career turn "came about completely by accident" when a friend at a recording studio casually suggested that she try a voice test. It went so well that she agreed to make a single with one side in English called Irresistible and the other in French called Ouragan (that means Hurricane, but it is actually the same song). The record, which will soon be released in the U.S., has been out for five weeks and has sold 100,000 copies in France alone. Her lark as a thrush might lead next to making an album, says...
European space officials watched nervously last week as a gleaming white Ariane 3 rocket awaited the final seconds of countdown on its jungle-ringed launching pad in French Guiana. While the Ariane program has generally been a success, three of its 16 missions since 1979 have ended in costly accidents. This time the European Space Agency's unmanned craft carried a payload of two satellites worth a total of $200 million: G-Star II, owned by the U.S. communications company GTE, and Brasilsat S2, a Brazilian counterpart. The countdown ran smoothly until just 4.9 seconds before ignition, but then...