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...Hangar Charcoal Steaks. Cheetah Nude Dancing. The Vault Self-Storage Warehouse. Rich's Place Package Goods and Cocktails. The signs flash by on this dreary four-lane strip. "Welcome to Wheeling-the village with feeling." Finally, painted in neat black-and-white script, a tastebud red alert: Le Français. The building looks like a suburban developer's vision of a French country inn, and the visitor pauses for a moment to savor the incongruity. Wheeling, Ill. (pop. 23,089), is a beer-and-pretzels kind of town with a sizable blue-collar population. Yet here...
...NOTEBOOK Fran Den Hartog was named Ivy Player of the year for the second year in arrow, and along with Maureen Finn and Jeannie Piersak, was named to the All-Ivy first team. Freshmen Ellen Velie and Jennifer Greeley were named to the second team, while Anne MacMillan and Jennifer White were accorded honorable mention status...
...house after the bicycle ride, Carter spoke of his concerns about the country. After the book is finished, he said, he intends to speak out more. Two weeks ago, he and Rosalynn left Plains for a vacation trip to Scandinavia, and on the way back he visited French President François Mitterrand. Carter has been strangely polite in his criticism of Reagan, despite the fact that the President, as Carter knows, holds him in contempt. For some months, Carter was denied even the minimal daily briefing reports that are provided to a hundred or so top officials...
...West German government spokesman declared his Cabinet's "dismay" at the toll of human life in the South Atlantic; Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was widely reported to have told the Cabinet that "there can be no blank check of solidarity with Britain." In Paris, the Socialist government of President François Mitterrand stated its "consternation" over the widening hostilities, and the French Council of Ministers called for a U.N.-negotiated settlement. The Italian government was more circumspect in its pronouncements, but popular pressure for a rethinking of all-out support for Britain was increasing; one reason was that...
...government of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, that increased the police's power to detain, search and even check identity papers almost at will. But Defferre insisted that he wanted "reinforcement of the powers of the police." In the midst of the debate, President François Mitterrand dictated the terms of peace. The Giscardian law, he declared, must go. He then ordered up new legislation giving the police similar, if not quite so sweeping, powers...