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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...haggard figure leaning against a lamppost outside a branch of Paris' famed Drugstore bore so little 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Empain's Ordeal | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Though money was obviously the gang's motive, Caillol and his accomplices seemed to elude easy classification. Caillol, 36, the suspected ringleader, is the son of a prosperous furniture manufacturer and ran a branch of his father's business in Montpellier. Daniel Duchateau, 39, who died in the Shootout, was even more enigmatic. After serving a six-year term for armed robbery from 1966 to '72, he wrote a book about why he had become a criminal. A five-year army stint convinced him, wrote Duchateau, that money brings liberty. "It's nothing really, just little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Empain's Ordeal | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...share the governor's enthusiasm. He questioned the feasibility of investigating every state and country building contract entered into over the last nine years. He added the general nature of the inquiry could "interfere directly with pending criminal prosecutions and civil cases being handled by the executive branch...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: Sound and Fury At the Judiciary Hearing | 4/7/1978 | See Source »

...bill's provision allowing the commission to make direct presentments to grand juries brought additional references to the doctrine of separation of powers from Bellotti. He insisted the power of prosecution remain with the executive branch. The majority of the committee members, all lawyers, seemed to agree. State Rep. Roland Orlandi, one of the committee members, said the particular provision is "out of the question," as it is unconstitutional. Card attributed the misunderstanding of the provision to a mistake in the bill's language. He spoke of the drafters' intention, saying "The commission as it is outlined here...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: Sound and Fury At the Judiciary Hearing | 4/7/1978 | See Source »

Baillargeon said that the new policy will affect 10,000 of the bank's 65,000 NOW accounts. He estimated that there are over 5000 NOW accounts in the Harvard Square branch held by people associated with Harvard, over half of whom are students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coolidge Bank Officials Reduce NOW Account Interest Rates | 4/4/1978 | See Source »

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