Word: baudouin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dozens of ambulances, their blue lights flashing, lined up at the quays nearest the ferry, waiting for survivors to be pulled out. The injured were transported to nearby hospitals, some in critical condition. There they were consoled by Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens, Belgian King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola and, on Saturday, by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who helicoptered to Zeebrugge. Said she: "The rescue effort was highly professional, skillful and very, very courageous...
...faced with a tragic accident, this is a real catastrophe," said Prime Minister Wilfried Martens, who went to the scene along with King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola...
...held prisoner during World War II. Self-exiled after the war because of Belgian bitterness about his surrender and disapproval of his second marriage to a commoner, Leopold returned in 1951, but violent riots broke out, persuading him to abdicate to his son, the bashful, 20-year-old Baudouin, who has since presided over a stable, prosperous Belgium...