41.   French local authorities declined to say whether the plan would be approved.

42.   French authorities have cracked down on ortolan trapping and restaurant sales.

43.   French authorities have embraced a North African domino theory, fearing that an FIS triumph in Algeria would trigger fundamentalist uprisings in neighboring Morocco and Tunisia.

44.   French authorities have repeatedly delayed the return of traffic to Mont Blanc, citing unresolved safety and environmental concerns.

45.   French authorities want to question Daoudi in connection with planned attacks on U.S. facilities in Belgium and France, including the American Embassy in Paris.

46.   From there, the Germans forwarded them to Auschwitz, and the French investigating authorities concluded that early on Papon should have known that few would ever return.

47.   He had been spotted by French authorities making trips to Afghanistan, the base for terrorist groups.

48.   His dismissal, he is persuaded, was not unconnected to the refusal of his naturalization request, since the editors are well connected to the French authorities.

49.   His defense tried, apparently successfully, to show that the Germans kept the full scope of their plans for the Holocaust secret from the French authorities.

50.   In fact, Bourget says, French authorities refused to give Nasseri either a refugee or transit visa.