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...newcomer should have known better, of course. He should have realized that the corsage is as dead as the darning egg. His excuse was that after seven years abroad he had moved from Paris to Los Angeles. And as everyone knows, the distance between the Rue de la Paix and the Pacific Coast Highway is measured not in flying hours but in light-years. Catapulted from the European fixation with the past into the Californian intoxication with the future, the returning expatriate felt he had been gone for half a century, and sometimes that he had been born yesterday...
There was a strong hint of deja vu in the wintry air of Geneva last week as U.S. negotiators at the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) filed into the headquarters of their Soviet opposite numbers, across the Avenue de la Paix from the Palais des Nations. Inside the Villa Rose, Chief Soviet Negotiator Victor Karpov greeted the Americans with a brief statement. "Changes in the global strategy situation" said Karpov, had made it necessary for his country to "review all the problems under discussion" at the negotiations. The Soviet Union, he concluded, was "unable to set a date...
...only pacifist organization of any consequence in France is the Mouvement de la Paix, headed by Michel Langignon, 68, an affable grandfather who has been a member of the Communist Party since 1942. The group's only significant achievement is the modest march it organized on Oct. 25 in Paris. On the ground floor of Langignon's offices in a working-class section of Paris is a collection of posters that includes onetime Member Pablo Picasso's sketch of the dove that became the familiar peace emblem. "Picasso said he didn't have enough time to think up a symbol...
...temptation to commit violations. With increasing armament sophistication, sentiment may arise for more thorough international controls. A recent report by the International Red Cross anticipates public outcry against "Weapons that May Cause Unnecessary Suffering or Have Indiscriminate Effects" (available for Swiss Francs from 7 Ave, de la Paix, Ch-1211 Geneva). The report discusses the historical and legal background, the military uses and the medical effects of weapons including small-calibre projectiles, blast and fragmentation weapons, time-delay weapons, incendiary weapons and weapons which could be developed in the near future...
...Sorrow and The Pity, a four-hour documentary dealing with the occupation of France during World War II, won Ophuls widespread recognition in this country. Its prelude, never before shown, will be screened on Wednesday under the title "Munich, ou la Paix pour Cent Ans." Meanwhile, Ophuls's latest production, Sense of Loss, about conflict in Northern Ireland, will be showing commercially at the Central Cinema...