He then conspicuously wondered aloud whether Nicolas Beytout, another of his close friends, was happy as editor-in-chief of Le Figaro, one of France's leading national papers.

ECONOMIST: French business and the press

It could be published by Editions de l'Avenir in Geneva and would be widely distributed by the Centre d'Information et de la Documentation sur le Moyen Orient (CID) in Geneva, recently founded, with friends, by my wife and I, whose publications we directed then.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy