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...incorrigible optimist who for years was regarded along the Florida Keys as at best a dreamer and at worst an unscrupulous hustler. Twenty years ago, Fisher and his indomitable wife Dolores, 46, began their search for the legendary lost galleons. Following a trail discovered by Historian Eugene Lyon in 1970 at the Archive of the Indies in Seville, Spain, Fisher found the wrecks lying in shallow water 30 miles west of Key West. So far, Treasure Salvors has recovered some 30,000 artifacts from both ships. The find has been appraised at $27 million for insurance purposes, but art experts...
Evidence against Smith, 35, includes the National Enquirer's interview tapes and the grand jury testimony of Nelson Lyon, a former writer for the TV show Saturday Night Live who apparently has been given immunity from prosecution. Lyon partied with Belushi during the hours before he died. According to people involved in the case, Lyon testified that he saw Smith inject Belushi with drugs...
...order became another unexpectedly emotional issue during campaigning, as some rightist candidates shamelessly exploited fears that high unemployment and a rising crime rate could be blamed on immigrants, notably from North Africa. Antigovernment voting was most pronounced in Marseille, in the tough urban sprawl around Lyon, and in other such areas with large immigrant concentrations...
...thump of disco rhythms. A troupe from the Comédie Française has played in the Paris subways. Still to come are an ambitious new "people's" opera house for the Place de la Bastille, a new ballet school for Marseille and a dance conservatory for Lyon. And, seemingly everywhere, there is Lang himself: listening to the raucous new-wave bands, paging through displays at the annual comic book exhibition at Angoulême, inspecting Grenoble's art museum...
...Barbie trial could prove a long and lacerating experience for a nation that has still not fully come to terms with its wartime past, especially if Barbie should begin to give the names of Frenchmen who collaborated with him. Says Lyon Newspaper Editor Bernard Villeneuve: "For France, this affair will be an exorcism. This has marked our political life for 40 years. While I do not want to deny the past, I do think that my generation is tired. They would like to put it behind them once and for all." It might not prove so easy. The Butcher...