Jacqueline BEAULIEU and Eric DARCOURT testify to their exclusion-sanction of the communist newspaper "L'Humanité" disguised as an economic dismissal which is in fact only a vulgar political dismissal for not respecting the sacrosanct "party line".
"I don’t want to end up old man on a bike..." is what Jeannie Longo says after her abandonment at the road cycling world championships in Sallanches following a fall. Demoralized, she even thinks to stop her cycling career then launches "anyway the sport is a blow of luck, the sport it is necessary to have of the luck..." Then, responding to the journalist’s question about her career, she adds, "I don’t want to end up old on a bicycle...".
Fans of the series "Star Wars", disguised as heroes of their cult film, have gathered at the Grand Rex in Paris for the opening of a three-day convention on the occasion of the release of episode III, the saga of George Lucas. Interviews with several of them, including Hubert BARDECHE, co-organizer of the convention.
In the debate program "L'Heure de Vérité", considered as an institution of political games and a must for French politicians, Jack Lang talks about his duty as Minister of Culture and his action especially with young people. In the audience: personalities from the world of cinema, literature, politics Marguerite Duras, Juliette Binoche, Michel Piccoli, Laurent Fabius ...
In the aftermath of the New York attacks, the hijacking of Air France’s Airbus from Algiers, on December 23, 1994, by terrorists of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), and the assault on Marseille-Marignane airport by GIGN men. The French Intelligence at the time had indeed discovered that it was actually a suicide operation that targeted Paris, with the ultimate goal of the terrorists to crash the plane on the Eiffel Tower. Testimony of Edouard BALLADUR (Prime Minister at the time of the facts): "The objective of the terrorists was to reach Paris and the Eiffel Tower... That’s why I took all the measures to force the plane to land in Marignane..."
The thirteenth Monaco Yacht Show has just opened its doors. Guided tour of one of the luxury boats on display, accompanied by Lorenzo CERULLI, Customer relations at Perini Navi. Interviewed, the latter explains: "These are great toys, the owners want that there is better and these are very expensive toys so they demand the maximum".
With the participation of the staff of French News (including Monique HUGUET, Gilbert CODUR, Mr SOULIER, Mr LABAUME), review of accidents caused by falls, in different working environments: office, scaffolding, construction sites... Title "POINTS DE CHUTES" in overprint on - VG of an office. A secretary answering the phone (Monique HUGUET). She gets up, walks and stumbles on books laid on the ground, she falls - VG of a visitor (Gilbert CODUR) entering an office. The secretary offers him a chair. The chair in bad condition collapses, under the visitor who goes to the floor - PR of a leg and telephone wire lying on the floor - Office AG - The employee (SOUL) reading a text hangs his feet in the telephone wire and falls - PM of the telephone secretary, PANO view of the telephone wire jammed between offices - VG of a construction site, the labourers carry planks - PM of a worker pushing a wheelbarrow full of bricks that tumbles on the rails of a decanville - GP of the rail - PM of a worker stumbling on boards - VG of rollers - GP of a worker who slides by pushing a barrel - VG of a worker who spreads salt on the ground - GP of a worker rolling a barrel on sand-covered ground - Ground cleaning machine GP - PM of cleaned floor - GP of a worker stepping over an obstacle - GP of the same worker who climbs the obstacle using a metal bridge built over this obstacle - GP of a worker climbing the steps of a wooden staircase - GP of feet gliding on snow-covered steps - GP of a worker on a slippery iron staircase - GP with feet on stairs with safety - VG of a hallway of an office - An employee carrying boxes masking the view, comes forward, a door is opened, knocks him, then a second door violently opened makes him fall - VG of a used carpet, a man’s feet bump into a hole in the carpet, the man falls (LABAUME) and bangs his head against a wall, the shock catches a pendulum that falls on his head.
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1918 armistice, a look back at the ceremonies that took place in Grézieu la Varenne, in the Rhône. After a religious service in memory of the dead of the two wars, the personalities went to the square Verdun where was inaugurated a milestone of the Sacred Way.