Word: albinism
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...obtained 136 documents implicating 48 public officials. He leaked 15 of the papers which involved ten well-known Gaullist politicians, including Minister of Agriculture Jacques Chirac and the editor of the Gaullist party daily La Nation. One letter from former Gaullist Party Secretary-General Rene Tomasini asked "mon cher Albin" Chalandon, then Minister of Development and Housing, to give a private firm a fat contract for highway construction. Another disclosed that a Gaullist Deputy had forged a building permit for a supermarket by inserting it between the clipped-off letterhead and signature of Chalandon. Yet another letter, on party stationery...
...wake of this pressure, Gaullist Minister of Public Works and Housing Albin Chalandon last month ordered that the beaches be opened up. Arguing that the state has been the legal proprietor of most of France's seashore since the 17th century, Chalandon decreed that all "private beach" signs and fences be removed and roads be built through estates that have sealed off beaches. He also declared that the plagistes (beach concessionaires) could not charge for access...
Brigadier General Albin T. Irzyk, commander of Fort Devens, informed the group that the planned distribution-unless approved by the Army-was contrary to regulations. Permission to circulate literature must be requested in writing seven days in advance and is subject to censorship by the Army...
...Bahutu down to size. As Acting Premier Pie Masumbuko said: "No one in his right mind would think for a minute that the U.S. embassy was involved in the assassination. Some say the Chinese killed the Premier. I say no." With that the government arrested as accomplices former Premier Albin Nyamoya, a vehement Watutsi irredentist, and 23 other Watutsi tribesmen...
...Premier Pierre Ngendandumwe, who was gunned down on the steps of a hospital in Bujumbura after a visit to his wife, who had just given birth to a baby. A moderate, Ngendandumwe had been in office only eight days, having replaced a pro-Peking regime headed by Albin Nyamoya. Burundi has been Red China's major East African base for subversion directed against the Congo, but with the assassin still at large, there was no way of knowing who had put him up to the deed...