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PARIS--An 85-year-old retired car dealer and a businessman freed in Lebanon by Shiite Moslem kidnappers arrived home in France yesterday, and were greeted by Premier Jacques Chirac...
Carla Bley, a premier avant-garde jazz composer and musician, and the Harvard Jazz Band played before a capacity crowd of about 350 last night in Agassiz Theatre...
...British, however, were themselves at least partly at fault because they had failed to prepare their European partners for the serious measures they were going to ask them to make. The French were caught in a particularly embarrassing position. Although Premier Jacques Chirac has taken a tough public line against terrorism, at the time the British broke off relations with Syria his government was engaged in furtive negotiations with Damascus, in an effort to forestall a further wave of bombings like those that terrorized Paris in September and to free the French hostages held in Lebanon. In pursuit of these...
...China last week was the first formal state visit by a Warsaw Pact Communist Party chief since that chilly era, and it signaled what Hu called a "new phase" in relations between the two countries. It came less than a month after a more modest working visit by Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski of Poland. Next year could produce new state visits from two more East bloc leaders, Czechoslovakia's Gustav Husak and Hungary's Janos Kadar...
...Soviet premier Mikhail S. Gorbachev will not succeed in his stated desire to reform his country, unless he backs up his words with real political change, NBC News Chief Correspondent Marvin Kalb said yesterday as he gave a guest lecture in Government...