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...Muslim group that is believed to have bombed the U.S. and French military headquarters in Beirut last October as well as the Israeli headquarters in Tyre. The caller said that Kerr was "the victim of the American military presence in Beirut," and vowed that "not a single American or Frenchman will remain on this soil...
Recently the Men's International Professional Tennis Council levied two loud penalties that have rattled the business. Frenchman Yannick Noah was suspended for 42 days and fined $20,000 for failing to show up at a tournament last May. Guillermo Vilas, an Argentine who lives like a prince ($932,150 official winnings last year) and sometimes dates princesses, was suspended one year and fined $20,000 for accepting appearance money to play in a tournament in Rotterdam, The Netherlands...
...given up at last. In Newport, where the race has been conducted since 1930, Baron Bich is remembered fondly for his distinctive white costumes and for the day he sailed off in the wrong direction at the starting line and disappeared into a fog bank. Now the old Frenchman's craft, France 3, belongs to Moviemaker Yves Rousset-Rouard, who has her back in Newport for another try. The hardiest dreamer left is Alan Bond, 45, an Australian entrepreneur from Perth, whose fourth adventure this summer will bring his tab to $9 million. Bond's boats have garnered...
...addition to center court since Rene Lacoste first stitched a crocodile onto a cotton shirt. In the finals of the French Open, Noah defeated Swedish Ace Mats Wilander, 18, the defending champion, 6-2, 7-5, 7-6. Delirious fans overflowed onto the court as he became the first Frenchman to win the tournament since 1946. (Noah was born in France and raised in the former French African territory of Cameroon.) Dampening Yannick's win only slightly was a 42-day suspension and $20,000 fine from the International Tennis Federation for his refusal to participate in a scheduled...
Gone are the days, however, when Frenchman could look at his watch and know that in every school in the country, children would be studying a particular chapter of a particular book. Despite the instructions issued by the Ministry of Education, teaching varies widely from classroom to classroom throughout the country. Typical is the diversity within the Ecole Annexe de l'Ecole Normale des Instituteurs de Paris, a public primary school: children in one second-level class are made to sit up straight and arduously copy lessons from the blackboard; in another, they are allowed to mill around...