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That promise may be hard to keep. The government, for example, chose the day of Chirac's convention to expel striking printers who had been occupying the plant of the daily newspaper Le Parisien Libere for nearly 22 months. The expulsion provoked a nationwide printers' strike, denying Chirac much-needed publicity about his triumph at Porte de Versailles...
Whenever Bernard Cabanes, 41, editor in chief of Agence France Presse, would run into Bernard Cabanes, 51, editor of the lowbrow morning daily, Le Parisien Libéré (circ. 800,000), the two identically named journalists would trade mistaken-identity stories-like the time in 1963 when police in Algeria arrested one of them for criticizing the government in print, when they really wanted the other. Last week the Bernard Cabanes who headed the news agency was buried. He was the victim of French journalism's bloodiest labor dispute in decades-and, once again, of mistaken identity...
...exploded just after 1 a.m. in the doorway of his suburban Paris apartment-a bomb that French police are certain was intended for the other Bernard Cabanes. Minutes after the explosion, an anonymous caller told a local radio station, "We have just blasted the home of Cabanes of Le Parisien Libéré." The newspaper, largest morning daily in France, has been wracked since March by periodic strikes of a heavily Communist printers' union, the Fédération du Livre. The strikes were inspired by layoffs ordered by the proprietor, Emilien Amaury (who also owns...
...seized two Paris-bound truckloads of the bootlegged papers, and scattered them across Flanders fields. Yet about half the normal press run made it through, and since then the daily has been published more or less regularly in a plant north of Paris with the aid of some Le Parisien Libéré printers who belong to the socialist Force Ouvrière, a union that does not recognize the strike. That labor organization's head, André Bergeron, escaped injury when a bomb exploded on his doorstep just a few minutes after the one that killed Cabanes...
...best-known French entertainer on either side of the Atlantic. For Americans, Chevalier was synonymous with Gay Paree-joie de vivre; I'amour, toujours I'amour; English with a charming French accent. For the French he conjured up a different image. Maurice personified the "Titi Parisien" (Parisian Urchin). Born in the old working-class quarter of Menilmontant, he was a kind of French cockney, with the innate wit, mocking manner, insouciance and unconcern for tomorrow of the poor Parisian from the faubourgs. He was the antithesis of the bourgeois from the 16th arrondissement, where eventually he went...