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Lined up on the other side of this emotionally charged debate are a group of 29 modern industrial nations, led (loosely) by the U.S. and the Soviet Union and including the European countries plus Canada, Australia and Japan. French Diplomat Michel Lennuyeaux-Comnene makes no secret of the fact that his country "is hostile to a vote of the majority of developing nations dictating maritime law to the minority of countries technologically capable of exploiting the seas." Other rich-country officials agree, though few care to state their feelings so bluntly. But no one denies that the large maritime nations...
...global seafood haul has more than doubled since 1950, and the sustainable catch limits have already been reached in some species: the American lobster, halibut, haddock, tuna, cod and salmon. French Diplomat Michel Lennuyeaux-Comnene, a spokesman on fisheries policies, says that the seas are being so badly overfished that there may well be "no more fishing" in only 20 years. He warns: "We're literally eating our capital...
Wedding in Blood, a fine Chabrol film about crimes of passion with brilliant performances from Michel Piccoli and Stephane Audran, is moving to Central Sq. along with Bergman's The Touch. Lucia is staying at the Welles, but not for too much longer, so catch it while...
...film's main characters, played to perfection by Audran and Michel Piccoli, are both middle-aged victims of unrewarding marriages. Picolli acts the part of a subordinate political figure wedded to a bed-ridden woman who is at once depressed and depressing. The sickly woman is self-conscious of the fact that she has made her husband's life dreadfully dull, but she is of neither mind nor body to change the course of things. The husband, were he to remain faithful to the invalid and to convention, would be condemned to the life of a wet-nurse...
...years ago, the E.N.A. has established itself as a school for national leadership without peer in any other major Western country. Although Giscard is the first graduate to reach the presidency, other Enarques (as alumni are nicknamed) have played important roles in recent governments. Among them: former Foreign Minister Michel Jobert and ex-Finance Minister and Common Market Commission President François-Xavier Ortoli, both class of '48. Below the Cabinet level, the school's 2,600 graduates hold many of the key jobs in the French bureaucracy, and their grip on the system is growing...