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...last Monday afternoon, a Chevrolet station wagon carrying five Palestinians drove slowly down the Rue Verdun in west Beirut. As it passed a parked Volkswagen, a huge plastique bomb turned the street into a violent shambles of smoke and flames. The occupants of the station wagon were mortally wounded; four passersby, including a German nun and an English student, were killed, and 18 others were injured...
With this ringing rhetoric, delivered to an audience of 20,000 under a huge tent in the small Burgundian town of Verdun-sur-le-Doubs, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing finally jumped into his country's roiling political campaign. At stake when the electorate chooses a new National Assembly in late March may be the political stability of the Fifth Republic. With the latest polls now indicating that the leftist opposition will win a 25-to 27-seat majority in the Assembly despite the breach between the Socialists and their erstwhile Communist allies, there...
They shall not pass," declared Prefect René Jannin of the department of Isère, invoking the immortal words of Marshal Pétain before the 1916 Battle of Verdun. This time, however, the attacking army was not only German but also Swiss, Belgian, Italian, Spanish, British and mostly French-perhaps 30,000 demonstrators in all. They were protesting against "Super Phénix," France's giant Plutonium breeder reactor, under construction near Malville, 28 miles east of Lyon...
Politicizing sport, a dangerous business, is never more seductive than when one wanders in Montreal. In suburban Verdun, swarms of children trying to win a midget hockey tournament skate under a flag showing white fleur-de-lis on a field of blue. The flag symbolizes Quebec and French Canadian nationalism. In the Forum, one finds Les Canadiens de Montreal defending their National Hockey League championship in a setting that proclaims élan. Forum announcements on goals are bilingual. Always the French-"Montréal but par Yvan Cournoyer "-comes first. Watching Canadiens named Guy Lafleur and Jacques Lemaire outskate visiting...
Died. Jacques Duclos, 78, veteran French Communist; of a heart attack; in Paris. Wounded and captured at Verdun in 1917, the roly-poly, bespectacled Duclos, a baker's apprentice before the war, joined the party in 1920, working first as an agitator among soldiers and draftees, and later earned the reputation of a political wunderkind by defeating Socialist Leon Blum for the Assembly. An orthodox Stalinist, Duclos gained leverage in the Communist International, virtually directed the 1946 expulsion of onetime U.S. Party Boss Earl Browder for continuing his wartime policy of soft-pedaling the "class struggle." After the Nazis...