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...follow. Six years ago, with a new bride and his odd American dream of winning the Tour de France, he moved to Europe for the coaching and conditioning that were available only in the sport's backyard. He did not underestimate the task: "It is as though a Frenchman moved to the United States at age 19, couldn't speak English and tried to make it in baseball...
...stood on the victory platform and heard his national anthem, he lowered his head, fighting back tears. Hinault saw the emotion, and his eyes widened. He stared in plain wonder. At that moment, it seemed, he understood at last that here was an American who had dreamed like a Frenchman...
...Vichy regime, which he "hated," had nonetheless saved France from "utter extermination" at the hands of the Third Reich. He feared the recriminations that might follow once the war was over and refused to stir passions against those who had stayed home and labored under the Germans: "A Frenchman abroad should be his country's advocate rather than a witness for the prosecution." He had the temerity to criticize the Gaullists: "Because this group is taking part in the fight outside France and constitutes a normal 'foreign legion,' it claims the reward of ruling the France of tomorrow...
With all the marketing savvy of a Hilton or Sheraton, Club Med is urging companies to take over villages for conferences and as sales-incentive rewards to employees. Frenchman Gilbert Trigano, 65, hardly talks like a man who flirted with Communism before he founded Club Med. Now the organization's president, he says that "we make a special effort for corporations. They are especially precious...
Such perversity is now commonplace in the city that was at one time a cosmopolitan gateway to the Middle East. Last week in the Muslim-controlled western sector, new depths were achieved when gunmen turned their vengeance on an 84-year-old Frenchman. Camille Sontag and his wife Blanche, 85, were driving along a seaside boulevard when a cab blocked their way. Gunmen leaped from the vehicle and pressed a pistol to Sontag's temple. Seconds later he was packed into the cab and driven away, bringing to nine the number of French currently believed to be held by extremists...