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...Barbie trial could prove a long and lacerating experience for a nation that has still not fully come to terms with its wartime past, especially if Barbie should begin to give the names of Frenchmen who collaborated with him. Says Lyon Newspaper Editor Bernard Villeneuve: "For France, this affair will be an exorcism. This has marked our political life for 40 years. While I do not want to deny the past, I do think that my generation is tired. They would like to put it behind them once and for all." It might not prove so easy. The Butcher...
Barbie's return to Lyon brings back painful memories of a France torn between cowardly collaborators and dashing members of the Resistance. Many Frenchmen, particularly those on the extreme right of the political spectrum, actively assisted the Nazis in their gruesome work. Leftists today, on the other hand, still enjoy reliving their halcyon days when the communist underground inspired brave fighters to risk their lives in dangerous sabotage missions against the Germans. Thus the French socialist president Francois Mitterand, in his very first symbolic act in office, solemnly paid a visit to Moulin's tomb in the Pantheon of Paris...
...uproar comes in the midst of an unprecedented national debate over defense policy. Long accustomed to giving he military whatever it demands, in a country where patriotism and the armed forces are nearly synonymous, Frenchmen are now questioning that practice in the face of rising budget pressures. Earlier this month neo-Gaullist Deputy Pierre Messmer, a former Defense Minister under Charles de Gaulle, led a censure motion against the Mitterrand government's defense policy in the National Assembly. Messmer attacked the "mere 15%" of public spending devoted to the military as "the weakest figure since the second World...
Joshua Slocum offered that advice after returning in 1898 from a solo three-year voyage around the world in his 36-ft. 9-in. Spray. Last week 16 sailors from eight countries (five Americans, three Britishers, three Frenchmen, a New Zealander, an Australian, a Japanese, a South African and a Czech) followed the great Yankee skipper's advice. As a gunshot cracked across Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay to signal the start, each sailor turned his stern on the plush attractions of old Newport, his bow toward the starting line off Goat Island and the wild Atlantic...
...Deuxième in Lebanon are several hundred troops of an equally distinguished unit. The Troisième RPIM (Third Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment) was formed in French-held Algeria during World War II. To bolster its ranks the Troisième sent recruiters to. London to enlist Frenchmen who had escaped from the occupied mainland. After parachuting into France, the force went on to take part in the jubilant liberation of Paris. In 1948 the Troisième was sent to Indochina, where it was cited for bravery in the battle of Dien Bien...