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...Frenchmen who may not like the carbonated Perrier or the somewhat sulphuric Vichy, there is still Evian (454 million bottles) or Vittel (335 million) to irrigate their kidneys, soothe their livers, relieve their gout and perform all the other cures ascribed in France to mineral water. And if they remain thirsty, there is always wine, which still outsells mineral water 3 to 1 in France...
Some 18,000 Frenchmen who will be left jobless by the U.S. pull-out dubbed themselves "the National Committee for the Defense of Employees of Allied Bases" and registered a formal demand for severance pay equal to one month's salary for each year of service...
...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Eric Sevareid attempts to explain the Franco-American love-hate relationship from Benjamin Franklin's time to, as he calls it, "the present irritation." "Our Friends, the French" will be represented by four Frenchmen of strong opinions: Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber, general director of Les Echos, a pro-De Gaulle paper; his cousin Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, general director of L'Express, an anti-De Gaulle magazine; Pierre Gallois, retired air force general and chief exponent of France's independent nuclear striking force; and Jacques Rueff, gold-standard devotee...
British viewers are shocked by scenes of Americans bearing away their own dead; film clips of G.I.s in the jungle remind older West Germans of ruthless Nazi anti-guerrilla tactics in France and Russia, which were not only unsavory but unsuccessful. A current poll shows that 30% of Frenchmen think Lyndon Johnson is more dangerous than Communist China's Mao Tse-tung; 35% of West Germans favor ending the bombing of North Viet Nam. Says West German Vice Chancellor Erich Mende...
...even to some Frenchmen, the De Gaulle-Debre policy is beginning to appear piggish. Reflecting widespread sentiment, Cartoonist Jacques Faizant last week portrayed France as a piggy bank stuffed with gold instead of the truffles that most Frenchmen would prefer. The Paris daily Le Monde bluntly labeled the French accumulation of gold as "sterile stockpiling...