FRANCE: Biased Bulls?

In the sleepy southern French city of Béziers last week were billed Spain's three ranking matadors: Marcial Lalande, Domingo Ortega, Manolo Bienvenida. But Beziers Aficionados booed, hooted, threw bottles, for Béziers is stalwartly proletarian and the bulls came from a part of Spain held by Rightist General Franco. Not till the manager shouted that bulls' dislike of red is instinctive, not intellectual, did the crowd allow the corrida to go on.

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