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...Moscow but to protest by using Olympic symbols instead of their own). Tears rose in his eyes afterward when a group of his countrymen draped a green, red and white Italian flag over his shoulders. The Soviet crowd jeered when no national flags were raised after a Swiss, a Frenchman and a Dane finished one-two-three in the 4,000-meter individual pursuit cycling. The winner, Robert Dill-Bundi, shook his head and wept when the white flag with five rings was raised...
...Soviets have banned TV crews from Red Square, presumably to prevent them from recording any anti-Soviet demonstrations, and denied them access to Lenin Stadium during a rehearsal of opening ceremonies. A Frenchman who tried to film the Olympic Press Center, six blocks from the Kremlin, was prevented from doing so by local militiamen; journalists have also been barred from hotels where foreign tourists are staying. The Soviets even refused to allow the U.S. Ambassador to deliver his traditional Fourth of July speech and the French Ambassador to make his traditional Bastille Day speech, because both contained references to Afghanistan...
...Grill a new stage, elaborate lighting and sound systems, and a low-key décor using muted browns, beiges and honey-colored furniture for at most 250 guests. The first cabaret show, Viva! Viva!, ran for 13 months. Kicks, produced, directed, choreographed and emceed by an exuberant Frenchman named Peter Jackson, consists of ten numbers, which are periodically changed, performed to taped music that ranges from the Beatles to Wagner. The show runs for 56 minutes. Says Jackson: "An American audience starts to scratch after an hour...
...hundreds were dead, many of them civilians caught in the crossfire. Some 600 foreigners, including U.S. Ambassador Donald Norland, and up to 30,000 of Chad's 4.5 million people had fled the war-torn country. In the capital, entire city blocks lay in ruins. Said one shaken Frenchman on arriving in neighboring Cameroon: "N'Djamena is finished...
Collins, 50, an American and a former Newsweek bureau chief in Paris, and Frenchman Lapierre, 48, a former editor at Paris-Match, spent four years interviewing and researching for the book on five continents, producing what they call "research-fiction." In the process, they talked with U.S. nuclear scientists at Los Alamos, civil defense experts in New York, Arab students in Europe and North Africa, and Israeli generals, not to mention a brace of agents from the CIA, Israel's Mossad and the S.D.E.C.E., the French secret service...