Word: melun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such beautiful work that when he came to trial, all hands agreed that even in France, where 80% of the world's fake currency is produced, Bojarsky deserved the title "the Leonardo da Vinci of Forgers." Almost regretfully, police packed him off to La Prison Centrale in Melun last week to begin serving a 20-year term. But, sighed Emile Benamou, director of France's National Center for the Repression of Forgers, and the man who spent 13 years tracking down Bojarsky, "His qualities as an artist are marvelous. Had it been dollars that he was making...
...escape the misery of his own backward land, where full-time jobs are scarce and wage scales a fraction of those in France. Since 1959, nearly 150,000 peasants have emigrated to France-most of them illegally. The majority live in squalor in such growing slum areas as the Melun shantytown on the outskirts of Paris. Faithfully, they send large parts of their paychecks home: last year their remittances added nearly $40 million to Dictator Antonio Salazar's economy...
...visit with his neutralist pal, Marshal Tito, Algeria's President Ahmed ben Bella last week set off for home. By rights, Ben Bella should have flown 1,060 miles southwest to Algiers. Instead, his Russian-piloted Ilyushin-18 plane headed north and touched down at France's Melun air port, 26 miles from Paris. There, a helicopter was waiting to hustle Ben Bella to the Chateau de Champs for a conference with Charles de Gaulle...
What was the purpose of this dramatic but curiously clandestine meeting, just 48 hours before De Gaulle took off on his long-heralded visit to Mexico? The men are not close friends. In fact, the meeting at Melun was the first time De Gaulle had laid eyes on Ben Bella since World War II in Italy, when le grand Charles had pinned a military medal on Ben Bella, then an obscure master sergeant in the Free French forces...
...provisional" Premier, Ferhat Abbas, has long had an apartment. Thus the talks can take place, as pride demands, in France, but the F.L.N. delegation can live on Swiss territory, free of the French police surveillance that made life miserable for them at last year's abortive talks in Melun...