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Once they knew with whom they were dealing, the police tried to use family pressure to make Yahia back off. According to the French weekly Nouvel Observateur, they brought his mother to the airport and let her talk directly on the radio to the cockpit. "In the name of God, I implore you, my son, to let all the passengers go," she said. Yahia reportedly fired a few rounds in the direction of the control tower and replied, "Mother, we'll meet in paradise...
Balladur was livid at the news. He informed Algerian Prime Minister Mokdad Sifi that he held "Algerian authorities responsible for the security of the French nationals in the plane." According to several French publications, including the Nouvel Observateur, the Algerians attempted to make the departure of the plane contingent on a resumption of French arms shipments to Algeria. At the end of his patience, Balladur called President Lamine Zeroual just before midnight and told him that "France is ready to receive immediately the Air France plane with its passengers on French soil." Early Monday morning the Airbus took...
...French say they're happy -- in a manner of speaking. Despite 12% unemployment, a faltering franc and the highest number of AIDS cases in Europe, an opinion poll in the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur found that 88% of French people claim to be happy. Huh? It turns out that the French are just happy not to be unhappy: relief at holding a job and not being infected with AIDS is what makes them smile...
...numbers, naturally, lie -- or only tell smidgens of the truth. The Nouvel Observateur poll neglected to point out that a Gallup survey one year ago had pronounced France among the unhappiest societies on the Continent. The poll also disclosed that 72% of French are in fact less happy today than they were 10 years ago, 60% believe things will "get worse," and 66% are plagued by the troubling knowledge that somewhere in the world there may actually be people who are not as happy as they...
...hangover from the gulf war, an episode that deflated the vaunted image of French power and influence. Paris waffled about what to do almost to the last minute and ended up sheltering behind U.S. policy. In the harsh judgment of Jacques Julliard, a columnist for the progovernment weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, "The gulf crisis revealed the weak influence of our diplomacy, the modest competitiveness of our industrialists and above all the archaic state of our military equipment...