Word: parise
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Giggles aside, however, important and quite nasty skullduggery still goes on in the world. If you are Eric Truell, the young Paris bureau chief of a grand old American newspaper, you might, fizzing with nerve and careerism, sneak past police barricades and into a hostage standoff to interview the terrorists...
In the U.S., Truell backtracks the French story, relying for information on a disaffected CIA agent he knew in Paris. There seems to be a lot of disaffection at the CIA, a sclerotic bureaucracy, as the author tells it, lacking in clear purpose and shaken by its own incompetence. Truell...
Although police inspector Javert (Todd Alan Johnson) is hot on his trail, Valjean stays with the dying Fantine in the hospital and decides to adopt her child as his own, rescuing the young Cosette (Danielle Raniere) from the clutches of the evil, greedy Thenardiers (J.P. Dougherty and Tregoeny Sheperd). Ten...
KINSHASA, Zaire: Mobutu Sese Seko's abrupt announcement that he will leave Kinshasa for a Wednesday meeting in Gabon with friend and longtime supporter President Omar Bongo has many wondering if Zaire's ruler of 32 years will ever return. Mobutu aides say he will come home Friday, but with...
PARIS: Confronting his sagging popularity and a record 12.8 percent unemployment rate, French President Jaques Chirac dissolved parliament and called for national elections on May 25. The move is a risky gamble to push through budget cuts needed to allow the country to join the European Union's single currency...