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...administrative strike" designed to wreck the bureaucratic machinery with implausible diagnoses and impossible claims. So far at least, the patients, who will now have to wait longer for their money while the red tape is unsnarled, have made surprisingly little protest against the doctors' sabotage-like all good Frenchmen, they admire anyone who manages to defy the bureaucracy...
...change in the status of Berlin raises the problem of the reunification of Germany. Admit it or not, many Frenchmen and Englishmen feel that West Germany is big and powerful enough as it is. Instead of pushing for reunification, they would prefer to concentrate on completing West Germany's integration into Western Europe. Even some Germans are not eager to jeopardize their prosperity by taking on the poor farm that is East Germany. But the U.S. remains convinced that so long as Germany is divided, it will be a flash point for war. And, as a matter of conscience...
...that definition, General de Gaulle may easily be the greatest Frenchman of his century. Yet what irritates him most is to discover that his stirrings lead to argument at all. Because he acts from love of country, he often sounds as if he cannot understand why other Frenchmen-or his allies-should oppose...
When he left, he believed that what he had to offer France was "a last resort selected in advance," which Frenchmen knew "could be invoked by common consent as soon as a new laceration threatened the nation." It took a dozen years to prove him right...
When it comes to crime, Frenchmen take a back seat to no one-except in kidnaping, which French criminals apparently rate a U.S. specialty. The French do not even have a name for it, use the U.S. word, pronounced keednaping. But last week le crime américain was on every Parisian tongue. Little Eric Peugeot, an heir to one of France's greatest industrial (autos, appliances, heavy machinery) fortunes, was stolen in broad daylight and held for $100,000 ransom...