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...bestselling Le Mai Français (The French Sickness); Health Minister Simone Veil, whom polls have shown to be the most popular figure in French politics; Interior Minister Christian Bonnet, who has been widely praised for his department's skill in negotiating the release of kidnaped Belgian Baron Edouard-Jean Empain (TIME, April...
...resemblance to the familiar newspaper photograph that no one even gave him a second glance. Yet for more than two months, thousands of police had been combing through much of France looking for a single trace of him. Then early last week, with authorities suddenly hot on the trail, Belgian Millionaire Baron Edouard-Jean Empain, 40, was released by his captors in a frenzied panic that contrasted sharply with their coolly professional capture of him 63 days earlier. Dropped off in suburban Ivry and handed 20 francs, Empain used the money to take a Métro to the Place...
...coincidence? Or was something more sinister behind the high death rate in the 38-bed geriatric ward of the public hospital in the picturesque Flemish Belgian town of Wetteren? Early last year, some of the nurses assigned to the ward, presided over by a short, plump nun named Sister Godfrida, of the Apostolic Congregation of St. Joseph, decided to compile a secret diary about the peculiar goings-on there. In their record they listed not only the continuing deaths and the circumstances surrounding each one but also various incidents of what appeared to be extreme maltreatment of old people...
...Belgian police formally charged the nun with three murders. Meanwhile, a judge ordered crews into the graveyard to exhume not only the bodies of the three patients that Sister Godfrida admitted killing but also those of two other possible victims. While the police awaited the autopsy reports they needed before they could add more murder charges, embarrassed ecclesiastical authorities pondered a list of improprieties that violated most of the remaining Commandments and included several deadly sins as well...
...investment hopes and fears, tumbled 22 points, as measured by the Dow Jones industrial average, to a 34-month low of 753. And a McGraw-Hill poll of executives in eleven industrial countries found U.S. businessmen second from the bottom in confidence about the future. Only profit-pinched Belgian managers were more apprehensive...