French Embassy

Centerfor Geopolitics ofEnergy and Natural Resources, UniversiteParisDauphine Formerly Nuclear Energy Attache ofthe French, Embassy ofWashington, DC... 

In several ways. The French Embassy in Stockholm is on the lookout for possibilities to bring brilliant French scientists to Sweden to give lectures early enough, and repeatedly. In France, we try to be polite with our Swedish colleagues. People of equal scientific standing, if they are Swedes, have a slight advantage, and this is not a unique French idiosyncrasy. 

In 1948 while on a planned fund-raising tour in the United States to raise money for Spanish refugees, it was the time of McCarthyism, and she was refused entry (she was a socialist) and kept in a detention center on Ellis Island until the French embassy in Washington could get her out. 

The authors are thankful to the Service de Cooperation d Actions Culturelles (SCAC) of the French embassy in Mali for its financial support. 

Bombing of U.S. Marine Barracks, Beirut — On April 18, 1983, a vehicle driven by a member of the Islamic Jihad crashed into the outer wall of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 67 people, 17 of whom comprised the majority of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) staff in Lebanon. In retaliation, the U.S. Navy bombarded terrorist positions designed to aid the Lebanese army in Beirut. In response, on October 23,1983, the Islamic Jihad fitted two trucks with 12,000 pounds of explosives and sent them on a suicide mission. The trucks passed the lax security at the U.S. Marine guardhouse and crashed into a wall of a four-story concrete barrack. All 241 marines and 58 French soldiers inside were killed in the explosion. 

Scientific Information. Only a few offices are prepared to provide information concerning scientific activity. When unable to answer a request, the usual procedure in the information office is to refer it to a suitable home ministry. The British Information Services and those of the commonwealths are well qualified to supply information bearing on research. The Pakistan Association for the Advancement of Science offers a good select bibliography concerning scientific progress there. Several countries (Sweden, Union of South Africa, etc.) have stationed in the United States science attaches whose function is to channel notice of American scientific advances to their countries. The technical adviser to the Swedish Embassy can advise United States inquirers about scientific matters in Sweden, and the French National Center for Scientific Research (C.N R.S.) maintains a New York office which supplies information on French science. Offices possessing library or reference files occasionally contribute scientific data from those sources. 

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