France’s secret nuclear programs discovered in... the garbage bins

Super-French negligence!

France’s secret nuclear programs discovered in... the garbage bins

Paris’s garbage holds real treasures. This has long been known to the waste-bin rats of [illegible] francs from an old piece of furniture, or [illegible] and collectors of [illegible] sold for several [illegible] — much, anyone who really rummages knows more.

But it is not only “professionals,” antique lovers, or [illegible] seeking to “complete their furnishings” who live off garbage. The writer Jean Montaldo, disguised as a “clochard,” rummaged diligently every single day for four months through the garbage bins beside the “Northern European Bank.” The result: a bestseller about [illegible] the financial ties of the French Communist Party with the Soviet Union. Montaldo also claims that he found highly secret documents on France’s nuclear programs in the garbage bins of the “Industrial Company” [illegible].

This wisdom of official and unofficial figures—throwing documents in the garbage without first destroying them—also feeds the bins to “sovereign” rummagers. French intelligence service personnel, a former agent testifies, make a habit of rummaging through the garbage bins of embassies, prominent figures and ministers. The agents also searched for medicine wrappers [illegible] in the garbage bins near the residences of British statesmen visiting France, in order to determine their state of health. The police intelligence service has a special unit of “garbage men.” And they recruit the “concierges”—the doormen of Paris apartment buildings—into their ranks.

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Britain’s sex problems

A report on [illegible] Britain [illegible] was published this week by the British weekly [illegible].

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• The main reason for divorce in Britain, [illegible] the courts, is British women’s attempt to educate their husbands.

• The high number of homosexuals in Britain stems from the great amount of time men devote to sports and from British wives’ dissatisfaction with their husbands.

• Britain holds additional records—that of [illegible] sex (who are generally women [illegible] with a religious education) and that of crimes with a sadistic motive.

• First sexual encounters usually take place between [illegible] in Victorian England, were [illegible] according to the French researcher, [illegible] was unknown in the rest of [illegible] Europe since the severe economic crisis of the seventeenth [illegible] century...

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Bardot back on top

Even many years after retiring from the screen, Brigitte Bardot is still considered an [illegible] actress. [illegible] for every ten million francs for appearing in a film [illegible].

Among active actresses, [illegible] leads, demanding and receiving one and a half million francs per film. Miou-Miou follows her with one million. Jean-Paul Belmondo heads the ranking of actors; he is in fact [illegible], owner of [illegible] Maxim’s restaurant), with a salary of four [illegible]. Alain Delon gets three million francs, the comedian Pierre Richard two million, and Patrick Dewaere one million.

By contrast, stars such as Louis de Funès and Yves Montand are in decline, while Sylvia Kristel, “Emmanuelle,” who [illegible] until now at one and a half million francs, has dropped to half a million and has returned, a complete surprise [illegible]. Finally, the director [illegible] directed. He is the comedy director Claude Zidi, who receives four million francs per film.

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Honoring the veterans of “Maxim’s”

The “Maxim’s” restaurant pays tribute to its veterans. Forty people, all of retirement age, who have been eating there for 40 years, received membership cards in the “Omnibus Club”—which gives them the right to dine in the main room bearing that name and situated, for the benefit of geography enthusiasts, between the restaurant’s two main halls.

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Patrick Dewaere and freedom of the press

The young actor [illegible] Patrick Dewaere once struck a blow against freedom of the press—a literally physical blow.

After, according to him, a journalist from the weekly Journal du Dimanche broke his promise not to publish the news of his imminent marriage, he arrived at the journalist’s home accompanied by his future wife and two burly friends, and gave him a proper beating. After expressing regret for the blows, the star of the title role in Claude Sautet’s “The Bad Son” announced that from then on he was cutting off his ties with the media.

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Demis Roussos’s punishment

Demis Roussos [illegible] in Antwerp, [illegible] to sing, after, for [illegible] two hours, [illegible] he [illegible] his songs, but [illegible].

Roussos attributed the act of [illegible] to the “state of mind” he had been through, and promised to compensate the 25,000 concertgoers with another concert, free of charge.