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Yigal Amir chewed gum, grinned and played to the cameras as he went on trial for the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Although the 25-year-old law student freely admits to the murder, Judge Edmond Levy immediately granted the defense a recess until January 23 so the lawyers would have time to study the evidence, possibly to seek technical grounds for a plea of not guilty...
DIED. GENERAL EDMOND JOUHAUD, 90, the last survivor of the four French generals who staged the failed 1961 putsch in Algiers to overthrow President Charles de Gaulle and keep Algeria in French hands; in Royan, France. Jouhaud was condemned to death, but De Gaulle commuted his sentence to life in prison and then released...
Some students also note short comings of particular houses. After Edmond M. Safra '98 was randomized into Currier House he decided to live off-campus next year with two friends...
...worst embezzling incident to hit an American church to date, the Episcopal Church reported that its former national treasurer had stolen more than $2.2 million over the last five years. Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning had initially fired the treasurer, Ellen Cooke, in January for her "working style." ButTIME Religion correspondent Richard Ostlingreports the Church never knew about the alleged embezzlements until Cooke demanded an $86,000 severance package, which led auditors to check her books more closely. "The fact that this amount of money could be siphoned from church coffers in such a brief period while nobody noticed is simply...
...breach left by the departing authorities forced U.S. units to devise jury-rigged solutions to local problems never anticipated by the planners in Washington: stamping papers for the sale of a pig; issuing market permits; settling marital spats. In Gonaives, Captain Edmond Barton, head of a Special Forces unit, was asked to mediate a dispute over who owned a bicycle. "Every time I deal with someone in the village, I get criticized for taking sides," said Barton. "We try to show them we are being fair, but everyone complains...