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...Marmottan Museum, a three-story town house in Paris' tony 16th arrondissement, shares the elegant Rue Louis-Boilly with embassies and mansions. The neighborhood's air of tranquillity was shattered one morning last week when five armed robbers invaded the museum, held some 40 tourists and eight guards at gunpoint, and made off with nine paintings valued at more than $10 million. Included in the haul was Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise, a 19th century masterpiece from which the Impressionist school takes its name...
...incessant assault of gunpoint interviews is over, the Fourth of July cheers for the 39 returning hostages have died away and other faces are filling TV screens. But reverberations of the crisis are likely to echo through the U.S., the Middle East and the world for months to come, affecting matters ranging from Israeli Cabinet decisions to congressional votes on the American budget. In particular, Ronald Reagan comes out of the crisis enjoying a new lift in public support and praise from some of his sharpest critics, who confessed that in this case at least he was not the headstrong...
...property owner to get to the beach--a place where renowned writers of a progressive bent use their gifts to compose No Trespassing signs. I could imagine Navasky in the thick of the story--interviewing disgruntled day-trippers who had been driven off the beach at gunpoint by civil liberties lawyers and contributors to the New York Review of Books, burrowing in courthouse records to find instances of scallop fishermen being snookered out of their land by neo-Keynesian economists...
...Monza with three occupants sped past him. He followed at high speed. Country Cousin, actually Howard Petty, 61, security director for the Eastwood Civic Association, relayed the information to a deputy constable hired by the association on weekends. The deputy intercepted the fleeing Monza and took the occupants at gunpoint to a nearby bar, where a customer lay dying from a gunshot wound. Other patrons identified one of the trio as the assailant...
...also involved. Store owners fear that customers will be driven away if vagrants take over a block. Fort Lauderdale is considering a number of antihomeless measures, largely because street people are bad for tourism. "There is a perception that downtown is unsafe; even the mayor was robbed at gunpoint," says City Commissioner John Rodstrom. He proposes spending more money to help street people, "but we are caught between a rock and a hard place. We don't want to make it too attractive for vagrants to come here." In Yonkers, N.Y., the Calvary Center Church has run afoul...