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...France-Soir, the largest evening newspaper in Paris (circ. 1,380,000), last week was the latest victim of the Secret Army Organization. Under tough, brilliant Editor Pierre Lazareff, 54, France-Soir has doggedly called for strong government action against the S.A.O., whose double aim of overthrowing De Gaulle and keeping Algeria French has resulted in hundreds of bomb explosions...
...August a plastic bomb was detonated at Lazareff's country home in St. Cloud. Other bombs have wrecked the apartments of three France-Soir reporters. Last week the S.A.O. struck again in the huge rabbit warren of a building on Paris' Rue Réaumur, where France-Soir is edited and printed. At 3 o'clock each working afternoon, some 20 news editors usually leave a conference and walk down a narrow staircase to their offices. On Wednesday, the conference was fortunately a little late in ending. At five minutes after 3, while the editors were still...
What most unnerved the editors was the realization that those who placed the bomb evidently knew their way around the building. Said a France-Soir official: "They almost certainly benefited from the complicity of one of the 2,200 people working here." He added: "What is S.A.O. really concerned with? It wants to prevent us from speaking the truth, from drawing attention to its activities as blackmailers and murderers. The whole thing recalls the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany...
...groups noted for their extraordinary capacity to find everything "just a little bit nicer at home in France" with the equipage necessary for their greatest comfort. French visitors, for example, will be pleased to find that Tito has embellished the bathroom at the Loibl Pass station not with France-Soir--of which there is a shortage--but with the next best thing: copies of an obsolete customs declaration form...
Listening to the man and watching his antics, some in the world gave him a loud raspberry. Paris' tart-tongued France-Soir compares him to "Marx-not Karl, but Harpo." Yet Brazil's common man calls him "messiah," "the savior," "the healer of our ills." As Quadros flogs his nation along his chosen path, other voices can be heard calling him "paranoiac," "autocrat," "dictator." Rio's Governor Carlos Lacerda, formerly a Quadros supporter, now a bitter critic, once termed him "the most changeable, the most mercurial, the most perfidious of all men ever to emerge in Brazil...