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Launched last year on a farm in Clackamas County, Ore., the Ecclesia Athletic Association camp professed a wholesome purpose. Founder Eldridge J. Broussard Jr., once a basketball star at Pacific University, said Ecclesia, an outgrowth of the Watts Christian Center in Los Angeles, would bring ghetto children into the clean rural setting and train them through a disciplined program of athletics...
...meantime, a heavily armed phalanx of more than 200 police equipped with bulletproof vests and including a special antiterror unit from Paris had surrounded the courthouse and begun talks with the terrorists. Less than seven hours after the drama had begun, negotiators, led by Paris Police Prefect Robert Broussard, had secured the release of almost half the hostages, including a group of law students who were observing the trial and two defendants who chose not to take part in the uprising. Throughout the night, the terrorists continued releasing hostages. By late Friday morning only four remained: Presiding Judge Dominique Bailhache...
...hurt. Thirty minutes later, the kidnapers and their captives climbed into a police-supplied Renault minivan and drove off to the Nantes airport. There they parked on a runway and released two of the remaining hostages. Further talks with Broussard convinced the three that even if they commandeered a plane, they had nowhere to go. Courtois, said Broussard afterward, "realized that he was at an impasse." Finally he, Khalki and the third kidnaper, Patrick Thiolet, drove to the airport terminal and surrendered, after Khalki was assured he could return to Morocco. Courtois sneered one last time at reporters, calling them...
Authorities in Milpitas, Calif., had never seen such a case of bleak amorality and callousness. Last month, they report, Anthony Jacques Broussard bragged to friends about strangling his former girlfriend, and then invited them out to see the body. One onlooker tossed a stone at the corpse; another helped to hide it; for two days no one notified the authorities. These were not hardened ex-convicts or members of a motorcycle gang. They were teen-age students at Milpitas High School. Anthony Broussard was 16, and the dead girl, Marcy Renee Conrad, was just 14. Even while they...
...American Scene to Plaquemines Parish's purchasing a golf course for the public at a return of $2 for every dollar invested by the taxpayer, and advocate the expenditure for water in Ironton of $2,000 a person, or over $20,000, for the benefit of the Merlis Broussard family of ten or more. The officials of Plaquemines Parish have always maintained fiscal responsibility and resisted irresponsible federal handouts, a duty they owe to their tax-paying citizens...