American and French Heroines
I have an unbounded admiration for the way the French police brought their hostage crisis to a successful conclusion without harm to anyone except the perpetrator. Here in the United States those in charge would have found a way to bungle the job as they usually do--or is it just that our criminals are more wily?
G. C. MONTOYA
Los Angeles
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