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...arrests and indictments of the four on charges of possessing weapons and explosives were greeted as a major victory in the French war against terrorism. Exulted a headline in the daily newspaper Le Parisien: ACTION DIRECTE DECAPITATED AT LAST! Others, however, fear that the terrorist group may be Hydra-headed...
...electronic chats like these add up. In the first six months of 1986, Minitel users made 122 million calls, logged 13 million hours and poured $53.7 million into the hands of some 3,000 services, including newspapers, travel agencies and retail shops. One information purveyor, the daily tabloid Le Parisien Libere, fields 50,000 calls a day for its mix of news, features and message centers -- taking in $1 million a month, half of which is profit...
...nervous public mood was reflected in the headlines that hit newsstands. PARIS PANIC! screamed Le Matin. PARIS-BEIRUT, read Le Parisien Libere. Over the next few days the parallel with the Middle East nightmare was eerily driven home as militant Lebanese Shi'ite Muslims fired on French peacekeeping troops in southern Lebanon, and Colonel Christian Goutierre, 54, the French military attache in Beirut, was gunned down. Responsibility for the assassination was claimed by the Revenge and Justice Front, a group that has no known links to the C.S.P.P.A...
...into F for Fake, for no apparent reason, a young Hungarian protegee named Oja Kodar. Not only a svelte, swarthy beauty, he assures us, but a major new talent: brilliant, sophisticated, articulate. Welles then proceeds to regale himself with two quarter-hour sequences of Kodar parading her proportions around Parisien, and then Hungarian streets...
Although the December 5th rally came off without any incidents of violence, the potential for it was in the air. The night before, Giscard's Minister of the Interior had had police evacuate strikers from the offices of a city newspaper--Le Parisien Libere. A member of Chirac's entourage broke the news forcefully to the crowd, expecting them to realize that the move would cause other papers to strike in sympathy and thus deprive the rally of press coverage. He awaited boos and hisses. But the crowd cheered wildly, excited at the news that police had begun to treat...