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...this month opened six foreign-language magnet schools. To attract white students into predominantly black areas, the district intended to offer intensive elementary school classes in French, Spanish and German. But the plan hit a snag when the Immigration and Naturalization Service refused to approve visas for the 14 Belgian instructors hired to teach French...
...decision to put the suspects in Louvain outraged convicts at other Belgian prisons. Hundreds of inmates hurled stones and set fires at the overcrowded Forest and St. Gilles jails in Brussels. If convicted, the English fans could each be sentenced to ten years in prison...
...riverbank campsite in Le Grand-Bornand, France, an Alpine village near the Swiss border, was crowded with holiday travelers on Bastille Day last week. When a violent summer downpour started, many of the 330 French, Dutch and Belgian vacationers took shelter in their trailers and cars. Then suddenly a tidal wave of water and mud cascaded down the river and engulfed the camp area, burying the vehicles and their trapped inhabitants under a mountain of ooze. The devastation killed 23 campers; eight more are still missing...
...push to recategorize the leopard is based on a five-month study, conducted in 23 countries by Rowan Martin, chief ecologist for Zimbabwe's department of national parks and wildlife management, and Belgian Biologist Tom de Meulenaer. The pair used eyewitness accounts and statistical computer modeling to estimate Africa's leopard population at a healthy 700,000 to 850,000. The 75- to 150-lb. cats have even been sighted recently on the outskirts of Nairobi. The biologists went so far as to recommend the resumption of international trade in leopard skins. The best approach to leopard management, they argue...
...festival that had nearly suffocated in gentility. Until then, this assembly of 30,000 producers, directors, stars, distributors, critics and other swains of the celluloid muse could find little to cheer and even less to condemn. Oh, sure, you could watch Michael Sarrazin strangle a nude hermaphrodite in the Belgian thriller Mascara. You could cruise the low-rent Film Market and see ads for such films as Assault of the Killer Bimbos, Space Sluts in the Slammer and Surf Nazis Must Die. You could catch Jean-Luc Godard in a typically impish auto-da-fe. This year the Peter...