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...This view is also heard abroad, though mostly in nongovernmental circles. The Swiss newspaper Journal de Genève asserts that the agreement "suggests to the entire world that it is possible to change the direction of U.S. policy through acts of terrorism and blackmail." French Political Commentator Edouard Sablier observes: "Of course it was ransom. By definition, ransom is anything that has to be paid to secure the release of a captured person." The critics attack some specific parts of the agreement, notably the provision that Americans with claims against Iran cannot sue in U.S. courts and be compensated...
...opinion of the work (one of his highest compliments: "I congratulate myself for having read your book"). In recent months De Gaulle has polished off, among others, Francois d'Harcourt's L'Asie, Reveil d'un Monde, dealing with the diversity of Asian cultures; Edouard Sablier's De I'Oural a I'Atlantique, a dissertation on Communist penetration; L'Histoire Secrete, a history of France from 1936 through the Algerian war; and L'agran-dissement, an abstract novel by Claude Mauriac...
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