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...Belgian-born nun, whose very name bespeaks Christmas, is the only missionary among the 10,000 garbage pickers of the Egyptian capital. They are untouchables who live in what amounts to perpetual serfdom, bequeathing their trade and squalor to succeeding generations. The garbage pickers stay alive by sorting through the refuse that is hauled out from the city in creaking donkey carts. The ragged men and women save the bottles and tin cans to be sold, and feed the slop to the pigs who live with them. Infant mortality in the community is an appalling...
...almost everything, from television sets to dinnerware to cameras and video games, Belgian waffle makers, foot massagers, pots, pans, cutlery and apparel of all kinds. So far at least, the drumfire of discounting is having the desired impact of making at least some stores busy. But much of what is happening so far this season is flash without great substance, chiefly because of the sales. Says Michael Evans, a private economist in Washington: "Consumers are buying more, but they're spending less...
...assassination attempt, Agca told Italian authorities that following his 1979 escape from an Istanbul prison, where he was being held on charges of murdering a prominent Turkish journalist, he had stopped in Bulgaria on his way to Western Europe. While in Bulgaria, he said, he had bought the Belgian-made Browning 9-mm semiautomatic pistol that he used in his attempt on the Pope's life...
...deep enough to prompt invitations to the oligarchs' parties and all the charity balls. Then there are the grounds for the divorce action. So far Pulitzer or his witnesses have testified that Roxanne, 31, went to bed with a local real estate salesman, a French baker, a Belgian race-car driver, the beautiful young wife of a handsome old Kleenex heir, an alleged drug dealer and a supernatural trumpet. That's right, trumpet. There are charges of drug use. And menages a trois. And incest. And death threats. "It doesn't sound very American or normal," admits...
Like other troops in the Foreign Legion created by King Louis Philippe in 1831 to pursue France's colonial ambitions, members of the Deuxième REP ostensibly are foreigners. In fact, many are Frenchmen who, with the tacit complicity of the legion, join by pretending to be Belgian, Swiss or Canadian. One attraction for recruits: new identity papers that protect them from the police. The Deuxième claims to have killed or wounded some 4,000 rebels during the Algerian war, while only 171 of its men were killed and 427 wounded. The unit remained neutral when...