Word: baudouine
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...that students spend a lot of time at the station would be an understatement. O’Dette and Baudouin spend upwards of 30 hours a week at WERS; both of them got their positions in large part through just spending time at the station and learning as much as they could. Students come in to work the reception desk, check out new CDs that have come in for their program and just to hang...
Fractious politics are a Belgian speciality: in the past decade the government has fallen eight times. Belgians have instead looked to their monarch, Baudouin, for stability -- until last week, when the King became a commoner for two days. Confronted with a bill passed by parliament that legalized abortion, Baudouin, a devout Roman Catholic, had the Cabinet declare him unable to reign so he could avoid signing the measure into law. The Cabinet promulgated the law instead...
...emergency session, legislators voted the next day to restore the King to his throne. Baudouin's action apparently was legal under an obscure article of the constitution, but there were outcries by the press and political leaders that he had played a "dirty trick...
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...