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...story on the Normandy battlefield, Painton crisscrossed the 60-mile stretch of landing beaches. At Pointe du Hoc, he explored the 100-ft. cliffs that U.S. Rangers had scaled in the face of enemy fire. "The remains of German bunkers are the only evidence that a war had been fought there," he reports. "Those bunkers were blasted into chunks of concrete that now resemble tilting Celtic dolmens...
...themselves singing as they set off from England, "Glory, glory, what a hell of a way to die..." They will remember exactly the spot where they were pinned down by German machine guns, or where a shell blast sent a truck pinwheeling. They will go up again to Pointe du Hoc and shake their heads again in wonder at the men who climbed that sheer cliff while Germans fired down straight into their faces. The veterans will take photographs. But the more vivid pictures will be those fixed in their minds, the ragged, brutal images etched there...
...Paris, French Environment Secretary Huguette Bouchardeau welcomed the decision. Said she: "There will be reparation for the damage suffered by the Bretons, local communities and by France. That is justice." Declared Charles Josselin, a Socialist Party official from the Cõtes du Nord region, one of the most heavily damaged areas: "We now know that the guilty parties will pay. Those who are really responsible have been convicted...
Vendler said Husker Du had asked to be paid in cash...
Melendez said that the council is under no legal obligation to repay Barber, who was act ing not as their representative but as the local manager for Husker Du...