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...Tokyo shows were organized by a council of premier designers created by Yohji Yamamoto, Kawakubo, Miyake, Mitsuhiro Matsuda, Kansai Yamamoto and Hanae Mori to wedge the country's talent into the traditional fashion route: Milan, Paris, New York. Paris is still the major market, however, even for Tokyo's finest. "Showing there, from the design point of view, is more intense," Kawakubo says. "It's the first presentation of my new work in front of journalists from all over the world." These, however, are not the best of times for any design that makes demands on the initiative and imagination...
...near the town of Arbonne in the Pyrenees. His arrest, for violating an order confining him to the city of Tours, came less than a week after European Community ministers vowed closer cooperation in dealing with terrorists. In Iturbe's case, the law-and-order- minded government of French Premier Jacques Chirac is likely to fulfill that pledge by deporting the suspected terrorist to Latin America or Africa...
...become its most controversial playwright. "The conversation was most agreeable," said Jean-Paul Sartre. Last week, nearly six years after Sartre's death, his longtime companion Simone de Beauvoir, 78, died of a lung ailment. The next day Jean Genet, 75, succumbed to throat ! cancer. Said Premier Jacques Chirac, inarguably...
...head of France's new conservative government, Premier Jacques Chirac has left no doubt about where he stands on major issues. But where does Chirac sit? For most of last week, protocol experts were trying to determine whether Chirac or President Francois Mitterrand should occupy France's seat at the opening banquet in Tokyo next month, along with President Ronald Reagan and five other leaders of the world's major industrialized countries. Both Chirac, the head of government, and Mitterrand, the head of state, will be attending the Tokyo meeting...
Last week, looking fit, Deng reappeared in Peking to greet visiting Danish Premier Poul Schluter. Western diplomats still believe that Deng has been under medical care. The Chinese leader would only say that his long absence was designed "to show that the current policies in China do not hinge on myself alone" and that he is thinking about when to retire completely...