Word: nouvel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...France the left-wing weekly Nouvel Observateur charged recently that at least 1,500 Parisians "are being listened to by the police, espionage and counterespionage services." The government has not bothered to deny the Observateur's accusation...
Italians are presumably no more vulnerable to bugging than are other Europeans. The French National Assembly passed a law forbidding all phone tapping three years ago, but, as Nouvel Observateur notes, "nothing has changed since the law was passed." The government goes right on bugging, with the help of some of the equipment that the Gestapo left behind in 1944. Not only do the authorities tap the phones of specific suspects, but there are permanent taps even on public phone booths in cafes near major ministerial offices. Tapping is limited, according to one expert, only by a "shortage of funds...
Despite the significance of the elections, there was a curious lack of excitement last week on the hustings. The pro-Socialist Paris weekly Nouvel Observateur commented on how different was the West German election last fall that returned Chancellor Willy Brandt to power. "Over there one felt the élan in the air. One felt that the entire population was intensely concerned with the choice before them...
Professor Kissinger's opinions are well known, Le Duc Tho's are not. As Olivier Todd notes (Le Nouvel Observateur, Nov. 27), the North Vietnamese are now struggling with a hard choice between "socialism open to the whole world (and) Marxism-Leninism shut in upon itself... It will soon be known whether thirty years of war will produce an authoritarian state, stiffened into its war communism, or--at last--a state combining socialism and democracy." In that choice America, and in particular Harvard, cannot avoid being implicated...
...left for me to do." With that, according to Hassan, Oufkir pulled his revolver to shoot himself. Others tried to stop him; some wild shots hit the ceiling. "The last shot was fatal," said Hassan-though he may not have told the whole story. Paris' Le Nouvel Observateur reported that those who saw Oufkir's body the next morning said that one bullet had hit him in the stomach, another near the lung, a third in the right arm, and a fourth in the back of his neck emerging through his left eye-too many wounds...