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...least one important Frenchman seemed convinced of the police's suspicions. Charles de Gaulle summoned his ambassador from Rabat to carry back to Hassan a personal message of his concern over the violation of French sovereignty. The implication was clear enough: Oufkir should be fired. From his palace in Fez, the King released a statement denouncing the French police charges as a plot to disgrace Morocco, and expressing his confidence in his ministers-a sign that he was not about to buckle under to French demands. With that, Hassan canceled a trip to Paris, where he was to have...
...four days the police got nowhere. Then last week an Air France public relations man at Orly Airport stepped forward with information which he said his conscience compelled him to bring to the police. He was Antoine Lopez, a Frenchman who had struck up an acquaintance with Ben Barka some years ago in Morocco. Lopez frankly admitted that at the behest of another old friend, one Georges Boucheseiche, he had intercepted Ben Barka in front of the restaurant, persuaded the Moroccan to drive with him to Boucheseiche's villa on the outskirts of Paris. There, Lopez was given...
...Frenchman created rayon back in 1884, and European textile makers began weaving fabrics out of nylon a year after Du Pont developed it in 1938. But the havoc of World War II and a certain resistance to wash-and-wear and wrinkle-free clothes made Europe lag behind the switch to synthetic fibers that swept the U.S. in the 1950s. Now Europe is making up for lost time. Synthetic fibers have become a $2.6 billion business in Western Europe v. $2.4 billion in the U.S. Close to two dozen new chemical-based fiber plants are being built in Europe...
...next three years? Despite warnings that capacity might rise faster than demand, fiber makers see little real danger ahead. Competition should mean lower prices, thus bigger markets. The biggest reason for optimism is the European consumer. Though synthetic-fiber production has doubled in five years, the average Frenchman still owns only two suits, and the average German woman still buys half as many girdles and bras as her U.S. counterpart...
...French don't care what they do, actually," remarked Bernard Shaw's Professor Higgins, "as long as they pronounce it properly." The jest was of the blunt Anglo-Saxon variety, but it sums up the reverence that every cultivated Frenchman feels toward the language of Voltaire and Racine. Since the war, it has been a matter of grave concern that the international community no longer shares this high regard. Gone are the days when Tolstoy's Russian aristocrats conversed and the Congress of Vienna convened-in French. Today France is waging a discreet campaign to reinstate...