Word: frenchmen
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...there a double standard for war criminals? Frenchmen were asking themselves that question last week after revelation of the very different attitude that President Georges Pompidou has taken toward two such criminals, one German and one French. The German is Klaus Barbie, who was Gestapo chief in Lyon during World War II, and is living in Bolivia under the name Klaus Altmann (TIME, Feb. 14). Pompidou has been publicly and energetically demanding Altmann's extradition to France. Now the weekly L'Express has revealed that Pompidou, against the advice of his Minister of Justice, last November secretly granted...
...centuries, the little town of Mauriac (pop. 4,300) nestled in comfortable obscurity amid the hills of central France. Then last March, hordes of inquisitive reporters and tourists in unprecedented numbers descended upon the somber community. Mauriac became front-page news, and an estimated 10 million Frenchmen tuned in for twice-a-day radio and television broadcasts from the center of town. The occasion for all of the hoopla: in one of the largest group efforts to kick the nicotine habit, 155 citizens of Mauriac decided to give up tobacco, cold turkey.* Their effort has been largely successful. More than...
...also, as Castro may well have observed, a study in paradoxes. Despite the agonies that Algerians suffered at the hands of the French in the eight-year war for independence, ties with France remain remarkably strong. France is still Algeria's principal trading partner; 7,000 Frenchmen teach school or operate medical clinics, while 400,000 Algerians work in France and send home $250 million annually...
...Frenchmen, though, missed the implications of the first national referendum conducted since Georges Pompidou succeeded Charles de Gaulle as President of the Fifth Republic. In view of France's seven-year presidential term, occasional popular votes are desirable to infuse a measure of excitement into the body politic-and, perhaps, to demonstrate the viability of the President's mandate. De Gaulle himself called for five referendums during his term of office, resigning after the fifth when the voters surprisingly rejected a program for government reform on which De Gaulle had demanded a vote of confidence...
...substantive issue of Pompidou's first referendum, held last Sunday, was not as controversial as De Gaulle's last. By now, most Frenchmen assume the expansion of the Market to be a fait accompli. The only real question was how many of the 30 million eligible voters could be lured away from "le weekend" and "la residence secondaire" to vote in what their President insisted was a pressing matter. The expectation was that about 60% of the voters would go to the polls, with about two-thirds of them in favor...