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...little Mozart, most recently at a Youth Orchestra concert in France's Loire Valley. The audience there cheered the maestro on, but some picky French critics thought that European harmony would be better served if Heath stuck to his other avocation, yachting. Sniffed the reviewer for France-Soir...
...Chief Henry Muller. It underscored the venomous tone that French politics is taking on as the 1981 presidential election approaches. The President's popularity as well as his much vaunted reputation as a fiscal wizard have both slumped badly. According to polls published by Paris' daily France-Soir, his approval rating has dropped nine percentage points since January, to 45%. His countrymen have become increasingly angry about the austere economic policies France has pursued since Giscard named Economist Raymond Barre as his Premier in August...
...cologistes Français claimed responsibility. No one had ever heard of the group before the explosion, and French authorities dismissed its claims. But by imposing a blackout on news of the police investigation, government officials inspired speculation in the press about possible, and some rather impossible, culprits. France Soir reported that the police believed "extreme leftists" had planted the explosives. Le Matin de Paris suggested that the act had been committed by Palestinians working on behalf of Libya. The newsweekly Le Point hinted that the CIA might have been involved, and Le Nouvel Observateur insinuated that the French secret...
...Visiteurs du Soir. Adams LCR, Saturday...
...band, as well as a disco combo, plus dance instructors to help unlimber the foxtrot generation; Thermo King's "Saloon," featuring the Great Jubilee Banjo Band and drawings for a radio-controlled miniature tractor-trailer for someone's lucky kid; and, of course, Mack Trucks' elegant soirée in the Trianon Ballroom, where a giant golden statue of its famous symbol, a bulldog, was displayed on the stage like an Inca god. At each convention Mack gives away 4,000 stuffed bulldogs, each year a little different; they are considered collectors' items. As a host...