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...problems are compounded by laws heavily restricting where and when newspapers can be sold, and legal rules that mean weekend editions - profitable in other countries - are all but impossible to start. The plan to be presented by the staff-management committee includes publishing many more stories online, says Sybille Vincendon, an editor. But that, as she notes, implies "a very, very big investment in the website." Is that likely? Maybe not: Rothschild, who declined to talk to Time, is believed to have approached several European media companies for investment, and found little interest. That leaves Libération journalists contemplating...
Last month a 23-year-old Parisian climbed to the summit of Mont Blanc all alone. Inspired by his success, two other ambitious young mountaineers, Parisian Jean Vincendon, 23, and Belgian François Henry, 22, decided to have a try at its challenging heights. They set out early in the morning of Dec. 22. The sky was blue and the air was warm, the kind of weather when skiers down below wish for snow. Four days later the skiers had their snow. Up above, the Alpine peaks were shrouded with ominous evidence of storm and fury. Torn between heartache...
...again with another helicopter-a big Sikorsky 58 with two pilots and two guides aboard. A great gust of snow temporarily blinded the man at the controls as he attempted a landing. The big machine lurched and crashed to earth, its rotors crumbled. The guides leaped out to find Vincendon and Henry in the snow more dead than alive, their legs frozen, their faces black with frostbite. "I'm going to die," murmured Vincendon...
...many people," agreed the father of Jean Vincendon, "have risked their lives already...
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