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Article: Business as usual as bombs hit Paris
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 22, 1995
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GENERATIONS of teenagers attending the College Condorcet, not
far from the Gare St Lazare in Paris, have loitered outside on the
corner of the rue d'Amsterdam and the rue de Bucarest, waiting for
the bell to signal the start of classes, chattering, pushing each
other, pulling on final, illicit cigarettes.
But these days they have been ordered to wait inside the school
building. Trips by Metro to the Bois de Boulogne for sport are
off. They go in a hired coach, or exercise in the school yard.
After six bombs and attempted bombings in three months the
education system - like the rest of the capital - is on red alert.
A mile or so away in the rue de la Victoire, car-owners have
seen some of ...