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Once more blood flowed in a Paris street. Once again posters picturing suspected killers appeared in the City of Light. This time the victim was Georges Besse, 58, president of France's largest auto-manufacturing concern, state-owned Renault. Coming just two months after a wave of bombings in crowded commercial centers across Paris killed eleven and injured more than 160, the shooting of Besse outside his home last week shocked and saddened the nation. On Friday 2,000 mourners, headed by President Francois Mitterrand and Premier Jacques Chirac, attended a funeral service for the slain executive at the Hotel...
...never lived in Paris than of those who did. China's Chou En-lai came in 1920, some 70 years after Karl Marx left Paris for London and eight years after a young Russian revolutionary named Vladimir Ilyich Lenin moved from Paris to Poland. While working at the Renault auto plant, Chou met a compatriot, Deng Xiaoping, China's present ruler, and together they founded a branch of the Chinese Communist youth organization. One of their contemporaries in Paris was Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh...
...attack was the bloodiest since the recent wave of bombings began Sept. 8. Earlier explosions hit a city hall post office, a cafeteria in suburban La Defense, the Pub Renault on the Champs-Elysees Avenue and police headquarters in central Paris...
...virtual arm of the government. They thus became used to the state's telling the private sector what to produce, and this continued after the war. When the fighting stopped, most of Europe lay in ruins, and the government began directing postwar reconstruction. The British steel industry and Renault, France's largest automaker, were among the ventures nationalized...
...Renault, the French automaker, rents a village for nine weeks each year so that 17,000 of its workers can stay for a few days or more. France's Total, a petroleum refiner and marketer, takes about 650 people a year to a Club Med as a plum for good performance. Says Philippe Morot, a Total executive: "It is remarkable what work gas-station managers will do to win." Other corporate clients have included Japan's Sony and Nikon, as well as Harley-Davidson and Pizza Hut from the U.S. Trigano plans to step up efforts to attract American companies...