The nuclear carrier FS Charles de Gaulle, with a submarine, tanker and
two destroyers arrived for a five day visit yesterday. They had been
exercising off the coast with Canadian and American navies.
The word is...it's good luck to touch the red pom poms on their
hats...but I'd leave it to the JimH's of the group to do that.
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