Word: tricolors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...military command headquarters (killing seven), a 24-hour curfew was imposed for one day while police went from house to house to search for infiltrators. Hospitals were crowded to two and three times their capacity. The small French community, anticipating the imminent arrival of the insurgents, began affixing the Tricolor to their houses; Paris had already recognized the Khmer Rouge. Meanwhile, the evacuated U.S. compound looked like a ghost town, picked clean of all movable objects by the Cambodian employees and police assigned to guard...
...rate, the dream house of adolescence, the mansion in the hills, is up for sale. Recently Sonny was visiting her and kidding her about it (their personal relationship is now amazingly warm and relaxed). Cher was having a manicure-a three-hour procedure in which an expert executes intricate tricolor designs on the star's fingernails. "See, Cher, that's you! You got your dream and now you're done with it." Cher shook her head. "You don't understand. I felt security in this great, strong house. But now, man, I got the house inside...
...three sets of laws (French, British and native) and three governing units, including the joint administration that operates under the authority of the other two. When the French moved to new hilltop offices in the capital of Port Vila Oust Vila to the British), it was discovered that the Tricolor was flying higher than the Union Jack, and so the French had to trim their flagpole. Out of such contretemps, the condominium acquired the nickname of Pandemonium...
Fireworks lit up the election-night sky as middle-class voters swarmed up the Champs-Elysées on foot, aboard motor bikes and clinging to the tops of cars. They waved the Tricolor and shouted, "Giscard à la barre! [Giscard at the helm!]." Over in the Left Bank student quarter, meanwhile, small knots of young people gathered under the watchful gaze of riot police to shout sullenly, and absurdly, "A victory for fascism!" Such were the sharply distinct reactions to longtime Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's knife-edge victory over Socialist Fran...
...elegant seven-room apartment on the He St. Louis in the middle of the Seine. Some 400 mourners, including his widow Claude, his son Alain, members of the government and old friends, crowded the baroque church for the 50-minute service. His casket was draped with the French tricolor and, as he had requested, a choir of monks chanted ancient Gregorian hymns. After the ceremony, a cortege of black Citroëns carried the immediate family and the casket to the Pompidous' weekend retreat in the village of Orvilliers, 31 miles outside of Paris. There, after an eight-minute...