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FRENCH STUDENTS, last week, protested in the streets because of educational reforms instituted by the newly installed conservative government. This proves a well-known rule. No, not that two Frenchmen will have three opinions, but rather that Europeans take their politics much more seriously than Americans do. Nothing bears this rule out more than the Iran-Contra fiasco that is washing up on our shores...
...Frenchmen were driven to Damascus during the night and given clean clothes and a bath at a government facility. They arrived early yesterday at the Foreign Ministry, where they remaied for more than an hour in an anteroom...
Waite said on previous trips to Beirut in November and December last year that he was there at the request of Islamic Jihad, the pro-Iranian Shiite Moslem group that holds at least three Americans and the two Frenchmen...
Most of France's exiles, of course, are not political figures at all, let alone terrorists, but merely victims of oppression. That long line includes Poles, Hungarians, Armenians, White Russians and Spanish republicans. In the late 1970s Frenchmen of every political persuasion welcomed the Vietnamese boat people, and today the Indochinese refugee community, with more than 100,000 members, is one of the city's largest. Inevitably, the anxiety level of Paris, and its people, rises sharply in a time of violence. But French Historian Pierre Chaunu warns against linking the current outrages with the country's traditional tolerance...
...pilot, Albert Maltret, 50, a salesman for an oil company, was publicizing the plight of Frenchmen who, he said, have been unjustly arrested in Morocco. Maltret said he was mistakenly arrested and jailed for a day last year during a business trip to Casablanca...