Word: pleven
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First Foray. If anything, the election results showed that French voters want new faces. Two members of Pompidou's government, Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann, 61, and Justice Minister René Pleven, 71, were turned out of once safe districts. Fully 174 of last week's winners are entering the Assembly for the first time; 100 of them are making their first foray into politics. Not one of the new Gaullist Deputies wears the rosette of De Gaulle's Resistance movement...
Police were not amused. Justice Minister Rene Pleven instructed the Paris district attorney to arrest Aranda and charge him with "stealing, concealing and revealing." Frontier police and Orly airport officials were also ordered to catch Aranda-though, as the Paris daily Le Monde wryly pointed out, not to question...