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...once worked as reporters on the now defunct Paris Presse. The solidest bond between the two is the joy they share in debunking the culinary canons of their fellow Frenchmen. They condone serving red wine with fish, accept Israelite gras as only "slightly inferior" to the product of Strasbourg and advise housewives to shorten the cooking hours of those long, loving, simmering stews. They have even dared to question butter's superiority to margarine...
...captives freed unharmed, but the ransom was high: he announced that he was closing down Schönau. His decision raised consternation. But international criticism could not change Kreisky's mind, nor could Israeli Premier Golda Meir, who rushed from a Council of Europe meeting in Strasbourg to Vienna to reason with him. Mrs. Meir spent two hours with Kreisky, but in the end the disappointed leader of Israel departed the Austrian Chancellery by a back stairway...
Miami's new cultural hero is slim, personable, vibrant Alain Lombard, 32. Director of the Strasbourg Music Festival in his native France, as well as a regular guest conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, Lombard has led the Philharmonic for six years and given it new dash, style and popularity...
...today than at any time since the Armistice. "They are buying back what they lost in two wars," complains a Paris-based salesman. "It's just a different form of occupation." Perhaps mindful of that possibility, French educational authorities have forbidden the teaching of German-language courses in Strasbourg primary schools...
Even in Europe-minded Strasbourg, there are limits to Europeanization. Although city planners discuss with their counterparts in Kehl such common development problems as new bridges and garbage-disposal plants, the overall city plan for the year 2000 is based purely on projected French developments. French national pride is hurt by the daily migration of Alsatian workers to better-paying jobs in German plants. Beyond that, the vast majority of Strasbourgers are either indifferent to, or ignorant of, the European Parliament that meets six times a year in their city. In their defense, it should be said that if they...