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...police or rescue people to help," he told TIME. But he was dissuaded by Morrison's drug dealers, he says, who instead had the body brought home to the apartment Morrison had rented, and staged his body in the bathtub. Among those who helped that night was Patrick Chauvel, now a seasoned war photographer. "We carried him in a blanket and got him the hell out of there," Chauvel recalls. "The five or six people who knew, who were there that night, agreed to just forget about...
...Townsville's Lavarack Army Barracks, the catering platoons go through spuds the way combat platoons go through ammunition. Piled in the kitchens behind the base's Chauvel mess are five bulging 20-kg sacks, a day's supply of mash and chips for the 300 soldiers who eat here. They're all very active, says Warrant Officer John "Benny" Benstead, the head chef, "So their metabolism is cranking over a fair bit." As a dietitian might say, they know how to put it away...
...through Dignity Battalions to protect 64 frightened guests and workers at the hotel. The next day one U.S. unit at the hotel sighted a personnel carrier approaching and opened fire. The shots were returned. In the hotel parking lot a Spanish photographer, Juan Antonio Rodriguez, was killed and Patrick Chauvel, a photographer on assignment for Newsweek, was wounded. The shooting was a tragic mistake; the approaching vehicle was carrying American soldiers...
Laos was dreamed up by French Diplomat Jean Chauvel, who in 1946 was France's Secretary-General of Foreign Affairs. At the time, France was trying to reassert its authority in Indo-China, whose rebellious inhabitants had no desire to return to their prewar status as colonial subjects. In place of original Indo-China, consisting of various kingdoms and principalities, Paris put together three new autonomous states within the French Union: Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos. Drawing lines on a map, Chauvel created Laos by merging the rival kingdoms of Luangprabang, whose monarch became King of Laos, with Champassak...
...GREAT BRITAIN. Among the Allies. Britain is the most eager to get started on negotiations. Britain was angered by De Gaulle's decision not to participate in the London talks, and Foreign Secretary Lord Home expressed his feelings to French Ambassador Jean Chauvel in strong terms. The British argue that substantive concessions can be won from the Soviet Union at the negotiating table, and they point to Khrushchev's changed timetable for an East German treaty as evidence. In further negotiations, Britain might be willing to offer de facto recognition to East Germany and to accept the Oder...