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...probably would have been held at Moorehouse in Atlanta and not at Harvard. It would have been sponsored by black institutions as well as, if not in place of, the three liberal dailies and the Institute of Politics, and would have included people like Buzz Palmer, Arthur Hill or Renault Robinson as well as people like James Ahern on its panel on Law and Justice...
...early morning last week, Robert Nogrette, 63, left his apartment in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt to walk a block to the state-operated Renault automobile factory, where he has been chief of labor relations for 37 years. At 7:35 a.m., a white Renault pickup truck pulled up alongside. Two young men in beige raincoats and caps leaped out, grabbed and chloroformed Nogrette, threw him into the truck and sped away. The kidnaping stirred up a wave of popular revulsion and inspired the Paris police to one of the most intensive man hunts in its history. The reason...
...leftist paper La Cause du Peuple, edited by French Author Jean-Paul Sartre, and identified themselves as members of the NouveUe Resistance Populaire, one of a dozen-odd clandestine "Maoist" groups operating in Paris. They declared that Nogrette had been taken as reprisal for the death at the Renault plant late last month of Maoist Demonstrator René-Pierre Overney, 23. Overney, fired by Renault for political agitation, was shot by the plant's chief of security, Jean-Antoine Tramoni. 25. when he and other Maoists charged the guards at the factory's gates. Immediately, Overney became...
...cemetery, the place where the Communards of 1871 had been put against the wall and shot to death. Conspicuously absent from the funeral were members of the powerful French Communist Party, whose union-the Confédération Générate du Travail (CGT) -represents the Renault workers. Mindful of the popular backlash in 1968 that made the Gaullists stronger than ever, and still eager to establish their political respectability, the Communists decried the disruptive tactics of the gauchistes. But they did denounce the Overney killing as "an extensive exercise in political provocation for the benefit...
...leftist momentum created by the death of Overney, the gauchistes turned to terrorism in the style of the South American Tupamaros, with Nogrette as their first victim. In exchange for Nogrette, they demanded that the police release all leftists arrested in demonstrations since Overney's death, that Renault rehire 14 fired Maoists and that revolutionary unions be given a chance to contest the CGT's domination of the plant. They also threatened to bomb the apartment of Pierre Dreyfus, director general of Renault...