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...pure Gamay de Chaudenay. The two are undoubtedly the only cuvées of their kind. And using the traditional oxidative vin de voile method - in which casks are only partially filled, allowing yeast to grow on the wine's exposed surface - Courtois has transformed ancient Loire varietal Menu Pineau into an ethereal wine with a bouquet of hazelnut and mouth of caramelized apple...
Creusot-Loire was created in 1970 by the merger of three steel and engineering groups. In 1980 Harvard-educated Didier Pineau-Valencienne took over as chairman and sought to streamline the company's operations. To no avail. In 1983 the group racked up record losses of $200 million...
After two reorganization plans failed to revive the firm's sagging fortunes, Pineau-Valencienne in March demanded a new $277 million aid package from the government of Socialist President François Mitterrand. Talks over a new salvage operation got nowhere. The Ministry of Industry accused Pineau-Valencienne of refusing to accept a "reasonable" blueprint, while the Creusot-Loire chairman charged that the government was trying to seize control of the company...
Sure enough. A few years later, stories spread of a secret meeting in Sèvres, near Paris, a week before the invasion. Selwyn Lloyd was said to have met French Foreign Minister M. Christian Pineau and Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, and worked out the full invasion plan in advance. Ben-Gurion himself admitted the meeting, and claimed that the three nations discussed the need for British collaboration because Israel wanted to guarantee the destruction of Egypt's air force. Did the British actually agree...
Fortnight ago France's Pineau finally came forward and confirmed that "definite arrangements" were made at the meeting. "A treaty like the Anglo-French-Israeli treaty," he said on a BBC interview in London, "was necessarily secret, because the circumstances were very difficult." Pineau felt the time for secrecy was past. "I should think that after ten years," he noted, "it would be possible to say more. If my English friends after this period agree to voice all the truths about this question, I should agree." If any of Pineau's English friends were to speak...