Word: tricot
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...quickly escorted to a second-floor office, where, on a Louis XV desk, in front of Premier Laurent Fabius, he placed a folder containing 29 typewritten pages. After a 20-minute conversation, the man left, and the Premier began studying the document. The 17-day labor of Bernard Tricot, Charles de Gaulle's former chief of staff, was finished...
When it was made public the next day, the eagerly awaited government-ordered Tricot report on what has become known as l'affaire Greenpeace answered some questions but left others as tantalizingly mysterious as ever. All through the summer, Paris papers and French politicians had speculated endlessly about whether the government was responsible for the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, the flagship of the environmental group Greenpeace, in Auckland harbor in New Zealand on July 10. Tricot's conclusion: "Everything I have seen and heard gives me the certitude that at the government level there was no decision aimed...
...that agents had been sent to New Zealand to spy on the ship before it set sail to lead a protest against French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. But the inquiry cleared the agents of any involvement in the bombing, in which a Greenpeace photographer was killed. Wrote Tricot: "I believe in their innocence...
...response to the scandal, President Mitterrand appointed Bernard Tricot, 65, a highly respected aide to President Charles de Gaulle 17 years ago, to head an official commission of inquiry. As the accusations and conjectures multiplied, Tricot discreetly interviewed Premier Laurent Fabius, Vice Admiral Pierre Lacoste, head of the DGSE, and other high-ranking government and military officials. Tricot's mission is to find out who sank the Rainbow Warrior and who gave the orders to do it. His eagerly awaited report is expected to be issued this week...
...positions he attacks is the argument for income redistribution enforced by the state. He addresses both a tricot egalitarian outlook and the more moderate theory of justice that John Rawls, professor of Philosophy, advanced in 1971, Nozick powerfully dissects both positions with imaginative and masterful counter-arguments...