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Article: Dany the Red returns.(French politician Daniel Cohn-Bendit)
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- February 1, 1999
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Like the prodigal son, Daniel Cohn-Bendit is back. Thirty years after President De Gaulle's government expelled him from France for the leading role he played in the May 1968 student uprisings, the French-born son of Jewish refugees has made a triumphant return from his political exile in Germany. Flamboyant as ever, with a mop of red hair to match his fiery temperament, he is leading France's Green Party into the European Parliament elections in June.
Now fifty-three, "Dany" has gained three decades' worth of experience and self-assurance, without losing any of the energy, eloquence, and delight in provocation that made him such an inflammatory figure during the ...