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...lived upstairs. In my entry. In my teensy-tiny little dorm (Lionel--in size, the premature baby of the Yard...
...very long time, and his preparations have finally borne sweet fruit. Last Sunday, after a tough come-from-behind campaign and a nail-biting finish, Chirac, 62, defeated the Socialists' candidate Lionel Jospin by a comfortable margin. He will thus succeed Socialist Francois Mitterrand, 78, whose second seven-year term ends on May 20. For a man who had lost presidential bids in 1981 and 1988-and who seemed to have been eliminated from this race only a few months ago -- it was an extraordinary personal vindication...
...LIONEL JOSPIN Initial round of French elections puts underdog Socialist...
Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin got a big boost in his run for the French presidency after winning 23.3% of the first-round balloting against Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac's 20.8%. Still, Chirac is favored to win Sunday's runoff and succeed two-term President Francois Mitterrand...
Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger nonetheless argued that Graham Martin, the U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, should begin evacuating the remaining Americans in Saigon and sympathetic Vietnamese. So little was done, though, that Lionel Rosenblatt and Craig Johnstone, two mid-level State Department officers in Washington, made a desperate effort to short-circuit the bureaucracy. They requested leave and hopped a commercial flight to Saigon to organize an unofficial rescue mission. Arriving at the embassy on April 22, they learned that orders were out for their arrest. They posed as French businessmen, holing up in an empty apartment found...