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Eos Angeles Sunes Thursday, August 1, 1985Part I 1 7 OBIT A I Michel Audiard; Frenchman Churned Out 100 Scripts Over 40TYear Span Herbert Scoville 70; Opposed Nuclear Arms From Times Wire Services PARIS Michel Audiard, an optician and racing cyclist who turned to screen writing in the 1940s and then wrote more than 100 scripts over the next 40 years, died Sunday at his suburban Paris home after a long illness. He was 65, and the cause of his death was not announced. Although best known in his native France, Audiard's films released in the United States includ ed "Peekaboo" in 1951 and "Ba-bette Goes to War" in 1960. Audiard worked with some of France's best-known directors-including Henri Decoin, Gilles Grangier and Philippe de Broca and wrote 10 books. "I am drawn by a certain sort of snobbism to write the kind of films that everybody goes to see and the kind of books that nobody reads," he once wrote.

publications. In a 1983 article in the Post, Scoville said he believed the United States was "drifting toward annihilation. Somehow the public doesn't seem to be able to grasp the significance of the issue." Scoville made extensive national and international tours to promote his ideas for arms control and campaign against the international arms race. His most recent trip was in January to Stockholm where he spoke at an arms control conference. Peace Award In 1981, Scoville was awarded the Rockefeller Public Service Award at Princeton University for his efforts to promote international cooperation and peace.

In accepting it, Scoville noted that public awareness of the dangers of nuclear proliferation must From Times Wire Services WASHINGTON-Herbert Scoville a former Central Intelligence Agency deputy director who devoted much of his career to warning of the dangers of nuclear weapons and their proliferation, is dead at age 70. Scoville, who had suffered from cancer for five years, died Tuesday at Georgetown University Hospital. Scoville was assistant director of science and technology for the CIA from 1963 to 1969. He also worked for the Department of Defense, the Atomic Energy Commission and the National Defense Research Committee. After 27 years in government, Scoville helped found the Arms Control an organization that disseminates information about nuclear weapons, strategies for controlling them, and the consequences of failing to do so.

Authored Books His books "Missile Madness" and "Toward a Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement," both published in 1970, are among the many volumes Scoville wrote on arms control issues. He also served as a witness before Senate and House committees on strategic and defense matters. Among his last books was "MX: Prescription for Disaster," published in 1981. He also was a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post, New Republic and other some 1 SANTA MOHIC A i i ii finest furniture and accessories. StvIrs frnm iiil America, Canada, Germany.

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