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Died. General Anthony C. McAuliffe, 77, hero of the Battle of the Bulge; of leukemia; in Washington. Left in temporary command of the 101st Airborne Division during a rest period, feisty "Old Crock" McAuliffe was ordered to hold the Belgian road hub of Bastogne when the Nazis launched a desperate counteroffensive in the icy whiter of 1944. McAuliffe's 10,000 men were surrounded by Panzers, outnumbered 4 to 1, and running short of food, medicine and ammunition when a German officer arrived with the surrender ultimatum that brought the U.S. general's famous, quickly scrawled reply...
...gumshoe in patent-leather footwear, a master of misstatement, a helpless fanatic for crème de cacao, soft, sweet chocolate and Russian cigarettes. Still, Hercule Poirot, famed Belgian-born detective-and literary creation of Mystery Writer Dame Agatha Christie, 84 -never failed to solve a case in all of 37 novels. "An extraordinary little man!" Christie once wrote. "Height, five feet four inches, egg-shaped head carried a little to one side, eyes that shone green when he was excited, stiff military mustache, air of dignity immense!" Alas, last week Christie announced that the archetypal armchair detective...
...have suggested to U.S. sellers that a deal be made through an American subsidiary in a country where low-interest government-guaranteed credit is readily available. For example, the Gleason Works of Rochester, N.Y., arranged credits for a $14 million sale of machine tools and production technology through its Belgian subsidiary...
Boasted of Money. Marks provided the most detail about a Belgian Jesuit priest named Roger Vekemans, who arrived in Chile in 1957 and founded a network of social-action organizations, one of which grew to have 100 employees and a $30-million-a-year budget. In 1963, Marks reported, Vekemans boasted to Father James Vizzard, now Washington lobbyist for the United Farm Workers, of getting money from the CIA. After a meeting with President Kennedy and CIA Director John McCone, Vekemans had dinner with Vizzard in Washington and said with a grin: "I got $10 million-$5 million overt...
Died. Achille van Acker, 77, Socialist Premier of Belgium in 1945-46 and 1954-58; in Bruges. Van Acker became a longshoreman, union leader and Socialist parliamentarian, fled Brussels to join the Belgian Maquis after the Nazi invasion in 1940. Named Minister of Labor in the coalition government that followed liberation, "Smiling Achille" persuaded striking coal miners to return to work, and was credited with the labor peace that speeded Belgian recovery. As Premier, he resisted the return of Belgium's collaborationist King Leopold in 1945 and formed an economic union with The Netherlands and Luxembourg that later became...