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From the beginning, the Claustre affair was one of the more bizarre, bungled diplomatic efforts in French history. Claustre was captured in the spring of 1974 while exploring pre-Islamic tombs with a young French coopérant -roughly the equivalent of a U.S. Peace Corpsman-and a West German doctor and his wife. In the rebels' attack, the doctor's wife was killed. West German officials quickly arranged a payoff for the doctor's return. Later, the coopérant escaped to Libya, leaving Mme. Claustre alone in the hands of a Maoist rebel leader named...
...raucous rant of wretched lady's wrath...
...These people are mad," she says, "but you just can't stay mad over one thing for three years--and there's really only the judge to rant about. You have to reach for new peaks to sustain the anger, so some of these parents--old ROAR people and the apathetic ones--have decided to move past heckling into something tougher, something more challenging. When they see how bad conditions in the schools are, how kids can be carrying home 'A's for grades and 'C's for conduct, they begin to realize that all the demonstrating, all the animosity...
...These people are mad," she says, "but you just can't stay mad over one thing for three years--and there's really only the judge to rant about. You have to reach for new peaks to sustain the anger, so some of these parents--old ROAR people and the apathetic ones--have decided to move past heckling into something tougher, something more challenging. When they see how bad conditions in the schools are, how kids can be carrying home 'A's for grades and 'C's for conduct, they begin to realize that all the demonstrating, all the animosity...
John Cottrell's Laurence Olivier (Prentice-Hall; $10.95) is by far the most literate of the new biographies, though it has a tendency to tiptoe all about its subject. Some negative observations are offered about Lord Olivier's vulgarities and his tendency to rant. But the book is mainly an enlarged poster of theatrical quotes: "Range and virtuosity"-James Agee; "Unforgettable"-Kenneth Tynan; "The most lovable person in the theater''-Dame Sibyl Thorndyke; "Simplicity and humility"-Kirk Douglas...