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DIED. Charles Gombault, 76, impassioned French journalist who, as cofounder, publisher and editor in chief of the mass-circulation afternoon newspaper France-Soir, challenged his country's tradition of partisan reportage by encouraging new standards of objective news coverage; following open-heart surgery; in Paris. Gombault, who was associated with many publications during his career, co-founded France-Soir in 1945, modeling the daily after American newspapers. "A journalist must remain a witness," he taught young reporters, "and resist the temptation to be at the same time an actor...
...thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable." Last week Prince Philip, that imperturbable aristocrat, was certainly uncomfortable. In the U.S. to inspect equestrian sites for the 1984 Olympics and to address the Los Angeles World Affairs Council about the International Wildlife Fund, he was invited to a soirée at the posh California Club. But the establishment, it transpired, prohibits women and has no black members. Philip's host, Mayor Thomas Bradley, refused to attend. Suddenly the club seemed rather too exclusive even for Philip's gentle blood. Being a proper guest, he deigned...
...wind up with not only Zsa Zsa Gabor, 63, but before you can say "rerun," you better also make room for Danny, Danny Thomas, 70. The benefit was for the Wildlife Waystation, a preserve for homeless critters near Los Angeles. Zsa Zsa decided to throw a theme soirée, and Danny came as a big-game hunter (a curious choice for a function that is raising money to keep animals alive). Also on hand in more tasteful, authentic trappings were a puma, a reindeer, a lioness, a jaguar, a raccoon, a macaw and a Gabor ex-husband-at least...
Giscard has acted adroitly to increase that control. Besides appointing close associates to head the broadcast networks, he has helped Political Ally Robert Hersant get government-facilitated loans to acquire control of three Parisian newspapers, France-Soir, Le Figaro and L 'Aurore. Their combined circulation of 1.06 million makes "Citizen Hersant" the most important press magnate in France. Commercial publish must still depend on the state-run advertising agency Havas to help them contract for major advertising. Moreover, under Giscard, a bewildering catalogue of government subsidies for such publishing costs as paper, telephone and telex communications has drawn financially...
...judiciary. The penalty if convicted: up to six months in jail. Two of France's principal judicial associations promptly took the journalists' side. One magistrate noted that he felt "better defended by a free press." A number of French publications, including Hersant's usually approving France-Soir, have questioned the government's actions. Complained an aide to Giscard as the furor mounted: "They want their Watergate...