France: The Determined Ones

Once again, gunmen were at work in the streets of Paris, and Frenchmen huddled anxiously to speculate on the next moves of that ugly remnant of Algerian hatred, the Secret Army Organization. Each day's headlines brought some new reason for fear.

First, there was the murder of Henri Lafond, 68, president of the Banque de 1'Union Parisienne. France's second largest investment bank. In the fashionable Paris suburb of Neuilly one morning last week, he set out for his office but got no farther than the back seat of his chauffeur-driven

Rover. A stocky...

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