Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report, of course, saying only that it is concerned with "trying to create a framework for wider global accommodation." This, along with European defense concerns, will presumably be one of the main topics when Carter meets late this week with his chief European allies-British Prime Minister James Callaghan, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt-on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe...
...moment, the mantle of interim President fell to President of the National Assembly Rabah Bitat, 53, a member of the eight-man Council of the Revolution and one of the firebrands who played a pivotal role in ousting the French in 1962. Three years later, Bitat joined Boumedienne's government after the bloodless overthrow of Ahmed ben Bella. The constitution limits Bitat to a 45-day term of office, during which the F.L.N. is supposed to choose a candidate and present him to the people for election...
...still very small. In Texas, Prince Franz Joseph, the 72-year-old monarch of the 40,000-acre Principality of Liechtenstein, bought 16,000 acres of ranch land. Across the country, other rich aliens are doing the same. Germans and Italians are the heaviest investors, followed by the British, French, Belgians, Canadians and Dutch. Neither the Arabs nor the Japanese seem to be in the market. Most of the buyers are good neighbors who often lease the land back to Americans and pour in development money to introduce modern, small-farming techniques...
SAINT FRANCOIS, Guadeloupe--The crisis in Iran was the main topic of discussion as President Carter, British Prime Minister James Callaghan, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt gathered yesterday on the Caribbean island for a two-day summit conference...
...stopped loving me and I suffered." Her own novels proved otherwise. Passion, in Colette's experience, dominated life, and she made her theme the pursuit of love, the treacherous ambiguities of sex. The Pure and the Impure, Cheri and The Ripening Seed pulse with an intensity unknown in French literature since Flaubert's letters to Louise Colet or Swann's obsession with Odette in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past...