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More than 300 years ago, Racine wrote I that a province of southern France could support 20 caterers, while a bookseller would starve to death. Today the ratio is probably reversed, if only because, grâce à dieu, cookbooks have largely replaced caterers. More than a gastronomic manual or a compilation of recipes, a well-made cookbook blends strands of history, geography and philosophy with dollops of legend and even a dash of the unsavory. This is particularly true of regional cookbooks, which have come into their own in recent years as increasingly sophisticated home chefs look beyond...
...French took the precaution of irradiating the uranium to make it impossibe for the relatively unsophisticated Iraqi technicians to handle it without assistance. So far Iraq has not been found guilty of any violations. The most recent inspection of Tammuz facility took place in January. Reported IAEA Deputy Hans Grűmm: "all fissionable material was accounted for. There has been no breach of treaty...
...France is trying to give the embargo the coup de grâce. France, which is Western Europe's leading grain producer, although it is not a major world exporter, has just completed a bumper harvest. The French this year will have 3 million to 4 million tons of wheat available for export. As a member of the European Community, France is bound by a pledge made last winter that it would not take advantage of the American embargo by boosting its own grain exports to the Soviet Union. But now the French government wants the Community to shelve...
...hard-line party leadership at a national council this month. Its first commitment: no further dealings that might lead to the so-called historic compromise of Communist entry into the government. With that, burly, ambitious Socialist Leader Bettino Craxi found himself compelled to deliver the coup de gráce. Reason: his own troublesome left wing strongly favors a Communist presence in the government...
Carter Administration officials vehemently reject Kissinger's complaint that they overthrew Somoza. The Sandinistas did that themselves. All the U.S. did was to administer a diplomatic coup de grâce in order to end the civil war. To preserve the status quo in Iran or Nicaragua-i.e., keep the Shah or Somoza in power-would probably have required direct military intervention, with G.I.s fighting alongside the Shah's imperial troops and Somoza's national guard. Even then, the Islamic and Sandinista revolutions might well have triumphed, leaving American prestige and strategic interests far more badly...