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...weeks ago, the French government moved to restore discipline to the ranks of the military. Defense Minister Yvon Bourges, a tough Gaullist who had been given the job of shaking up the armed forces a year ago, sternly announced his intention of indicting such soldiers on a charge of attempting "to demoralize the army for the purpose of harming national defense." He also reactivated an emergency special court for national security that had been set up in 1963 to suppress terrorists of the O.A.S., the secret army organization of French Algerians. Soon afterward, 16 soldiers were arrested. If they...
...stepped up, and the promotion system will be reformed to allow young officers to rise faster in rank. "The decisions taken today are only the first step," said Giscard. In fact, they were really a second step. Last January he shook up France's military leadership by naming Yvon Bourges, 53, a tough, energetic and sometimes abrasive Gaullist, as Minister of Defense to replace the ineffectual Jacques Soufflet. General Marcel Bigeard, 59, a paratroop hero and one of France's most decorated soldiers, was named Bourges's deputy...
...point, a Haitian immigrant named Jean-Louis Andre Yvon, 33, turned unwittingly onto Dorchester Street. Some 35 people surrounded Yvon's car, smashed his windshield and pulled him out. Someone shouted, "Get the nigger!" Yvon fled for the porch of a nearby house and clung to the railing as youths battered him with clubs. Only after a white policeman drew his pistol and fired some warning shots was a dazed and bleeding Yvon finally rescued. "He would have been dead if I hadn't fired," the policeman said later...
First period goals by Chicago's Chico Maki and Bobby Hull put the West ahead to stay. The East's single tally also came in the first period from the stick of Montreal's Yvon Cournyer...
Twelve years ago, Brundage offered his collection to San Francisco. By his stipulation, it took a $3,000,000 public bond issue to raise funds to house it, which the city voted in 1960. He also insisted on appointing his own curator, Yvon d'Argencé, a Frenchman who grew up in Viet Nam and who speaks and writes three Oriental languages...