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...protest. Four days later the suspect was released-thereby touching off one of the most explosive international brouhahas in years. The affair triggered political repercussions from the Quai d'Orsay to the Nile, raised storms of outrage in Jerusalem and Bonn, severely embarrassed the government of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and touched off outcries against the cynical expediency of French justice...
...country's most illustrious families, De Broglie became a Resistance hero during World War II, served under Charles de Gaulle in various ministerial posts and was a key member of the French team that negotiated Algerian independence in 1962. He was a former secretary-general of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's Independent Republican Party and had held a seat in the National Assembly since...
...chartered Aeroflot jet. Once the plane was no longer flying over Soviet territory the official unlocked the cuffs and ex plained that Bukovsky would not be deprived of Soviet citizenship like Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was deported in 1974. Instead, the erstwhile convict was given a Soviet passport val id for five years of travel abroad. This final detail of Kafkaesque bureaucratic procedure amused Bukovsky. Said he: "I can still consider myself a political prisoner-but on holiday...
...reflecting an immediate 10% boost (the eleven propose to tack on another 5% on July 1). The two-tier price works out to about an 8% increase in the average price of oil imported by major consuming nations-enough to put a drag on the global economy. French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing estimated that OPEC price boosts since 1973 have hit the French consumer as hard as a 50% hike in income taxes would have, and asked bitterly, "What would happen to a government that decided to increase income taxes 50% and then transferred the money...
...unlike actors forever frozen in images not of their own making, the Fitzgeralds' protagonists want to direct their own fate. Val Rostoff, the dispossessed Russian count in Scott's "Love in the Night," returns to the harbor at Cannes each spring hoping to find the mysterious American woman on her yacht where they made love beneath the moon, one night many Aprils before...