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Since 1925, Figaro has been housed in an ornate town house on the Champs-Elysees that is the delight of tourists but the despair of newsmen. Some of the staff enjoy the luxury of spacious salons; others are cooped up in maids' rooms under the eaves. Within La Maison, as it is affectionately called, a hierarchy of sorts is maintained. An ordinary reporter is known as "notre collaborateur." A slightly more important reporter is called "notre excellent collaborateur." And a member of the French Academy is honored with the title "notre excellent...
...brought me to this forlorn place?" goes an old Vietnamese song about exile. It was hardly an apt description of the scene in Paris last week when South Vietnamese expatriates celebrated Viet Nam's National Day at the Maison de I'Amerique Latine. Consul General Nguyen Huu Tan, dressed in tails, greeted the guests, who drank bottle after bottle of cold champagne-Moet et Chandon 1949, Brut Imperial -the best. Along the Left Bank, the North Vietnamese were throwing their own ball at the headquarters of their diplomatic delegation. Not a bad life for an exile, whatever...
...special cell at Algiers' Maison Carrée, Berber Chieftain Hocine Aït Ahmed, 38, jailed since October 1964 for his campaign to overthrow ex-President Ahmed ben Bella, received special treatment. He got better rations than other prisoners, family and friends were allowed to drop in and chat, Wife Djainila could stay overnight, and negotiators from Strongman Colonel Houari Boumedienne stopped by to ask if Aït Ahmed wouldn't agree to support the new regime. All to no avail. One night last week, when Djamila, other relatives, and neighbors trooped homeward, the group also...
...proceedings started off with a Bang - a lieutenant named Bang passed out the voting slips. In La Maison Blanche, a forlorn, peeling stucco villa overlooking Cap St. Jacques on the South China Sea, 58 officers of South Viet Nam's Military Revolutionary Council sat on hard, schoolroom-style chairs and scribbled their votes on the ballots. A colonel chalked up the results on a blackboard: Khanh, 50; Defense Minister General Tran Thien Khiem, 5; General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, 1; General Do Cao Tri, 1: blank ballot...
...fear of economic hardship, among other things, discourages many Quebeckers from taking separatism seriously-it would be a "disaster," says Quebec's Premier Jean Lesage. On its own, however, Quebec is seeking capital from the U.S. and trade ties with France, in 1961 opened a $340,000 Maison du Quebec in Paris...