Word: strasbourg
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...matured, she has added three inches and 13 pounds; some coaches wondered if she had become too top-heavy to perform her limber routines. Indeed, Comaneci looked like a stranger in her new body. She finished a disappointing fourth in the all-around competition during the World Championships at Strasbourg in 1978, then missed much of that event last year due to a badly infected hand...
Bitterness between the French and Italian Communists has flared openly at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, where Marchais has accused Italy's Communist deputies of lining up with "reactionaries" against him. That thrust was aimed at Berlinguer's determined recent campaign to seek ties with the Socialist and other moderate parties of Europe. Berlinguer has held summit-like meetings with French Socialist Leader François Mitterrand and with Willy Brandt, chairman of the West German Social Democratic Party. Says Italian Communist Policymaker Sergio Segre, a deputy at Strasbourg: "We sometimes find ourselves voting on the same side...
...student undergoes a profound conversion. His new Protestantism is anathema to both church and state and he flees to Switzerland. In Geneva, Calvin becomes the voice of a new moral order; in one dispute he walks off the altar at Easter and is expelled from the city. Moving to Strasbourg, he ministers to French Protestant refugees, is married and waits for a summons back to Geneva...
...champion of human rights ever since he passed the Paris bar at the age of 19. Founder of the Institute for Training in Human Rights, sponsored by the Paris bar and UNESCO, Pettiti was appointed to the French seat on the 20-judge European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg last year. He has counseled some celebrated East European dissidents: Anatoli Shcharansky, whose 1978 Moscow trial for "treason" he was forbidden to attend, and Czechoslovak Playwright Vaclav Havel, who was convicted of "subversion...
...usual, the Italians have led the way in declaring their independence of Moscow. At a meeting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg two weeks ago, Berlinguer introduced a resolution that condemned the Afghanistan invasion but also called upon the nine members of the European Community to preserve détente by negotiating with the Soviet Union on their own. In Rome Communist Spokesman Luciano Barca said: "We are closer to the Social Democrats of Germany and Benelux than to the party in France...