Word: french
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...Rome, who is currently in Sofia and thus beyond the reach of Italian law. Martella relates that according to Agca, Vassilev urged at a May 10, 1981, meeting of the conspirators that the shooting be carried out as soon as possible. According to Agca, Vassilev emphasized urgency be cause "French and Rumanian secret services . . . had come to know about the possibility of [the assassination], and that the news had probably been given to them by some Bulgarian who played a double-cross." Martella reports that "many confirmations" for such intriguing possibilities were found during the investigation...
...when the passenger arrived at the Manchester airport for the early-morning flight to Paris, he was recognized as Arthur Scargill, Marxist leader of the British mineworkers union. Scargill, the London Sunday Times reported, had been on his way to a secret meeting with a Libyan official described by French intelligence as a liaison between the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and international terrorists. A mineworkers' executive later went to Tripoli and met with Gaddafi...
Scargill insisted that the purpose of his Paris trip was merely to consult with French unionists and denied that the mineworkers were seeking money from Gaddafi to support their 35-week strike against Britain's national ized coal industry. Nonetheless Scargill's Libyan connection, revealed seven months after a British policewoman was killed by shots fired from Libya's London embassy, sparked a public outcry. "It is dreadful that this union would approach a terrorist country for help," said Ted MacKay, head of the mineworkers' North Wales branch. Declared Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock...
...very, very bad" at drawing and says that "talent, unfortunately, is not hereditary." Nevertheless, Sophie Renoir, 20, a great-granddaughter of French Impressionist Painter Pierre Auguste Renoir, is determined to express herself. Her chosen medium is film acting (well, her great-uncle is Film Maker Jean Renoir), and her credits include The Children Are Watching, with French Heartthrob Alain Delon and a planned film this spring with Burt Lancaster. Renoir just visited New York City to preview a limited edition of 318 bronzes (initial asking price: $15,000 each) that went on sale last week after being cast from great...
...Benet, a French Civilization concentrator, has played the harp for eleven years. As one of the 3000 members of the American Harp Society, she has won the Society's triennial National Competition twice in her age division...