Word: evreux
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...Moezi landed at a military airfield in Evreux, 55 miles west of Paris. After 43 days in hiding, Banisadr was free. But the entourage had to wait at the airport for four hours until French officials, fearing retaliation against some 100 French citizens still in Iran, extracted a written pledge from Banisadr and Rajavi forswearing any political activity involving their home country...
...raise, the 220,000 conscripts in the 338,000-man army were the lowest salaried troops in Western Europe; they could barely afford a daily beer at the local bistro. Nearly 90% of their barracks were constructed at or before the start of the century. At Evreux, soldiers of the 41st Communications Regiment have no hot water in their quarters, must trudge to a separate building for frequently nonfunctioning showers and shiver through winter reveilles because the ancient coal furnace has to be extinguished at night to avoid the danger of fire...
...sincere hopes for your future success." Simultaneously, Lemnitzer was complying with another deadline: De Gaulle's demand that U.S. forces leave France by next April. U.S. Air Force Colonel Harold Fulmer, flying the first American planes and equipment (mostly desks) from the 27-year-old French airbase of Evreux to the new NATO station at Mildenhall, England, said simply: "We hate to go." Actually, Fulmer did not go. He and his crewmen flew back from England to spend the July 4th weekend with their families in France...
...Some 26,000 U.S. servicemen, including many airmen at fighter bases like Evreux and Cháteauroux; they man nine airfields, some 40 supply depots, and supervise port facilities and three NATO and one U.S. fuel pipeline traversing France...
...live like royalty, tooling around Switzerland, France and Spain in a fleet of Cadillacs, Jaguars and Mercedeses, accompanied by scores of servants, bodyguards and hangers-on. Rhadamés, who looks after the investments in France, cuts the caper in splendor on a $5,000,000 estate near Evreux, with his wife and 15 servants; his three stallions and 20 champion brood mares are already the talk of French racing. In Madrid, Ramfis, his mother and a few other family members occupy three $50,000 apartments in a fashionable section of the city, while Angelita and her husband live...