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...beginning of the 1980s, among other reasons, to look for Hitler's former secretary Martin Bormann. But Bormann had been declared dead in 1973 after his remains were found in West Berlin and identified partly through reporting by Heidemann's former Stern colleague Jochen von Lang. Heidemann was unavailable to explain the apparent discrepancy; he has declined all requests for interviews. Most troubling to fellow journalists, Heidemann refused to disclose his sources, even on a confidential basis, to his editors at Stem. But Editor Koch professed to have no worries. Said he: "We have every reason to trust...
...longstanding interest in regionalism fills his new work. "Culture," he notes, "now divides France instead of unifying it." Having passed through nationalist and internationalist phases. France is presently in a pluralist stage whereby culture "is a battle for the right to live freely," he says, quoting minister Jack Lang. This notion underlies much of Zeldin's analysis of social mores as well. Defining a French national culture is "an unattainable goal." Styles of life "are ceasing to be homogeneous." There is "French taste, and French good taste." Contrary to previous stereotypes. "There is no established French attitude toward love...
...personal fiefdom for 30 years; Finance Minister Jacques Delors, who was running in the Paris suburb of Clichy, a safe Socialist seat for 50 years; and Premier Mauroy, who has controlled the northern industrial city of Lille since 1973. In Paris the Chirac steamroller overpowered both Culture Minister Jack Lang and Socialist Leader Lionel Jospin...
...Lang's evangelizing has boosted him to fourth place in popularity among the Mitterrand Cabinet's 35 ministers. That appeal, however, is due in part to his often gratuitous attacks on U.S. influences. For two years in a row, Lang has bypassed the American film festival at Deauville, a major annual event, to visit more obscure French art projects in provincial towns. In a burst of chauvinism that seemed calculated to stir Third World sympathies, Lang called, at a UNESCO conference last summer, for a crusade against U.S. cultural "imperialists" who "want to impose a uniform...
...polemical style comes naturally. A lawyer by training, Lang founded the experimental World Festival of Theater in the northeastern city of Nancy when he was only 22. In 1972 he was called to Paris to revitalize the musty Chaillot theater. In the process of gutting he building's ornate interior during renovations, Lang created huge cost overruns and caused a scandal. Recalls a colleague Utterly: "He turned a great theater into a garage." Then Minister of Culture Michel Guy fired Lang, who capitalized on the insult by joining the Socialist Party. In 1978, Mitterrand, who was still leader...