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...medals at Grenoble. Le Monde, France's most influential newspaper, accused Jean-Claude of selling an exclusive picture story about himself to the weekly magazine Paris Match for $7,000 "after he imprudently offered it before numerous witnesses to the highest bidder." The Communist daily paper L'Humanité followed with another charge: that Killy last year agreed to use a brand of Italian ski poles exclusively in exchange for an unknown sum of money-and that Crespin later paid the manufacturer $6,000 to keep mum about it. Still other stories circulated that Killy makes...
Gibes & Outrage. The response to such diatribes was as quick as it was predictable. In leftist Algeria, where France has a big stake in oil production, the semiofficial newspaper lauded De Gaulle's "customary lucidity," his "striking lesson of wisdom and political courage." L'Humanité, the French Communist daily, praised the President's stand. And the official French radio network ecstatically reported that "all eyes" in New York had suddenly swiveled toward Paris...
...radical tone of the encyclical and its blunt attack on capitalism were, understandably enough, endorsed with enthusiasm by Europe's Communist press. France's L'Humanité declared that "the evils that the encyclical calls attention to" are those that "Marxists have been calling attention to for more than a century." In fact, parts of Populorum Progressio had the strident tone of an early 20th century Marxist polemic-which, to some readers, was precisely its flaw...
...French reporter, Jacques Moalic, scaled casualties down to perhaps two or three dead but reported that the heavily residential neighborhood around the Paul Doumer bridge spanning the Red River (the city's limits at that point) had been "devastated." The French Communist daily L'Humanité also said that the Chinese embassy had been "touched by a projectile," whatever that meant. Peking caught the clue, soon put out a dispatch claiming that U.S. planes had "dive-bombed" the embassy and hit the nearby office of the New China News Agency...
...free world also bitterly denounced the events in Peking. The Japanese Reds, reportedly ordered by Mao himself to risk their cherished legality by initiating a campaign of terrorist attacks, responded by purging pro-Peking leaders and tearing down pictures of Mao. The French Communist newspaper l'Humanité said the new wave is "stirring disquiet and stupefaction in our ranks." Asked a Spanish Communist spokesman: "What winds of madness are these, sullying the authentic Chinese revolution...