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Whenever Bernard Cabanes, 41, editor in chief of Agence France Presse, would run into Bernard Cabanes, 51, editor of the lowbrow morning daily, Le Parisien Libéré (circ. 800,000), the two identically named journalists would trade mistaken-identity stories-like the time in 1963 when police in Algeria arrested one of them for criticizing the government in print, when they really wanted the other. Last week the Bernard Cabanes who headed the news agency was buried. He was the victim of French journalism's bloodiest labor dispute in decades-and, once again, of mistaken identity...
...just after 1 a.m. in the doorway of his suburban Paris apartment-a bomb that French police are certain was intended for the other Bernard Cabanes. Minutes after the explosion, an anonymous caller told a local radio station, "We have just blasted the home of Cabanes of Le Parisien Libéré." The newspaper, largest morning daily in France, has been wracked since March by periodic strikes of a heavily Communist printers' union, the Fédération du Livre. The strikes were inspired by layoffs ordered by the proprietor, Emilien Amaury (who also owns the lucrative...
...have two daughters, and am thoroughly in favour of sexual integration and equality of opportunity, and the further it goes the better. As a matter of fact, it has gone considerably further in England than it has in America. I think that when you Americans talk about women's lib, that what they're really after is equal pay and an equal cut of the economic cake. What they're really after is money, like all Americans. In England, we've had equality of pay and equality of opportunity among the sexes all my adult life. There...
...daughter Kate, 1%. She is considering Actresses Barbra Streisand, Brenda Vaccaro, Goldie Hawn and more than a dozen others for the leading role of Isadora Wing, but has not made up her mind. She and Screenwriter Jong are tempted to give the story a women's-lib climax. "We both want Isadora to get on a plane, fly without fear and leave both men. We want a more exhilarating feeling...
...course of their barrio sojourn, the police made some surprising cross-cultural discoveries. Women's lib, for example, has not yet penetrated the barrio. The father remains the head of the household in all matters; he and the other males are even served their meals first. The women eat later...