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...Territoire (DST), the French counterintelligence agency. They asked him to come to headquarters for a routine identity check. He did so without protest. Four days later the suspect was released-thereby touching off one of the most explosive international brouhahas in years. The affair triggered political repercussions from the Quai d'Orsay to the Nile, raised storms of outrage in Jerusalem and Bonn, severely embarrassed the government of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and touched off outcries against the cynical expediency of French justice...
...policemen, thoughtfully provided by the Foreign Ministry, stood guard at the front door of his hotel. Along with the rest of the delegation, Abu Daoud was invited to the Quai d'Orsay, where he met with the Director for Middle East Affairs. That same evening he was taken into custody by the DST agents...
...President-elect Jimmy Carter said he was "deeply disturbed," although he did not mention the incident in a telephone conversation with Giscard about an economic summit. The State Department expressed its "strong conviction that terrorists should be dealt with sternly by legal authorities." The protest was rejected by the Quai d'Orsay as "inadmissible comment on the acts of French courts...
GEORGES SIMENON is the most prolific writer living, the famed mystery story-teller of over 400 novels and creator of the diffident Commissaire Maigret of the Quai des Orfevres Criminal Brigade. His first novel, which appeared in 1923, was written in one week to meet a publisher's deadline, and in succeeding years he has never deviated from that schedule, nor from the plot format he first laid down. This methodical grinding out of thrillers has made him the best-selling French author ever, a kind of freak of technique in the publishing world, and has earned him millions...
...aristocratic family, Leger published his first volume of poetry in 1910, four years before joining the French foreign service. Dark-eyed, mustachioed Leger served as secretary of the French embassy in Peking and later as adviser to Foreign Minister Aristide Briand before becoming the highest permanent official at the Quai d'Orsay. He published his poems under a pseudonym to keep his official and poetic identities separate. In 1940 Leger fled to the U.S. rather than serve a French government that favored appeasement of Germany, and thereafter devoted himself to poetry. Though his output totaled a mere nine volumes...