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DIED. Myron Cohen, 83, stand-up comic who was a star on the Las Vegas, Atlantic City and Catskill Borscht Belt circuit for 40 years, and a favorite of TV audiences on the old Ed Sullivan hour and the Tonight show; after a heart attack; in Nyack, N.Y. A onetime salesman in New York City's garment district, Cohen specialized in dialect stories and ethnic jokes that were sometimes blue, usually hilarious, but always gentle...
...Suez crisis of 1956 was the critical juncture, when their own weakness shocked the West European powers. Britain and France invaded Egypt but then had to stand down in the face of opposition from the U.S. With the possible exception of the Falklands war, no major foreign military expedition has been launched by the European countries. They have tended to opt out of first-rank international leadership, accept their demotion to medium-size power status and grudgingly leave responsibility for their defense to the U.S. This sometimes comfortable, sometimes melancholy provincialization of Western Europe has led to a softness...
...sent French paratroops to quell an insurgency in Zaïre in 1978. On that occasion, he noted gratefully, "our forces were conveyed from Corsica to Zaïre by American planes." Giscard and Thatcher showed that not all Europeans have forgotten how allies, even when they disagree, sometimes have to stand by each other...
...official in Paris: "We fear an attempt to put the European Community's agricultural policy on trial." The French agree in general, however, with the notion of a more cooperative approach to international exchange rates and monetary policy. Indeed, they claim with some reason to have pioneered that stand as far back as 1983. Thus the French may find themselves for once on the same ideological side as the U.S. As one French official puts it, "The Americans are no longer the most stubbornly free-market oriented. The West Germans and the British...
...refer to the latest terrorism in Paris in the past tense, as if the attacks were over [WORLD, Sept. 29]. Unfortunately, the paranoia of Parisians and the street patrols have not ended. Soldiers continue to stand on busy corners, and avenues are choked with cars and taxis carrying people afraid to ride the Métro. I wish I could have felt comfortable reading your story as an after-the-fact commentary. But the security checks and sirens remind us that it is not over yet. Carolyn Grose Paris...