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SEVERAL YEARS AGO Marcel Ophuls's documentary film The Sorrow and the Pits reopened the painful subject of French behavior during the German occupation. The national collapse of 1940 represented to most Frenchmen a devastating indictment of their government and society. Consequently, in the process of national reconstruction after the war, nationalist politicians sought to project an image of a heroic France united behind de Gaulle and the Resistance Ophuls attempted to show that this image was a self-serving myth, since the Resistance never comprised more than a tiny fraction of the population, which for the most part collaborated...
...Hess's articles of faith that the Government should be radically reduced as well as reorganized. "I also think the public school system is a failure and prudent people should abandon it." Not by violence, however. Anarchists like the 19th century Frenchmen FranÇois Ravachol, and Edouard Vaillant who tossed a bomb into the National Assembly, assumed that bombs and bullets would be necessary to free mankind. Hess, who has been arrested three times for participating in an antiwar demonstration, is willing to forgo force in favor of example. Like many a true believer, he is convinced that...
...left behind one correspondent, James Laurie, and a cameraman, Australian Neil Davis; on hand for CBS was former British Schoolteacher Eric Cavaliero, who had taken refuge in the network's Saigon office last month. About a dozen British correspondents, along with several Frenchmen and Italians, also stayed. Of the 37 Japanese journalists still in Saigon, a few were there willingly, but most because their American evacuation buses had not shown up. Other non-volunteers were United Press International's bureau manager Alan Dawson, 32, Asian News Editor Leon Daniel, 43, Correspondents Paul Vogle and Charles ("Chad") Huntley...
Ever since France's President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing announced on New Year's Eve that he would like to have dinner with a typical French family once a month to keep up with "the problems that concern Frenchmen of all professions," the Elysée Palace has been swamped with invitations. The very same night, one woman telephoned and told the duty officer at the palace: "Oh, please, tell the President to come right over. We're having oysters and turkey and would love to have him." Other offers were less polite, including...
...sleeping or for jumping. 14. They had a joint account. 15. A free revolver. 16. October 23,1929. 17. He "had a better year." 18. "Begging and other acts." 19. My bonus lies over the ocean, My bonus lies over the sea, Tey gave all the dough to the Frenchmen, And n w they've got nothing for me." 20. Mac Arthur. 21. Hoover. 22. John J. O'Brien. 23. William Randolph Hearst. 24. "It's a lot easier." 25. "Every time an Administration official gives out an optimistic statement about business conditions, the market immediately drops." 26. "Courage...