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...last two issues, Le Canard charged that Giscard, both when he was Finance Minister and after he became President in 1974, had graciously accepted 50 carats in diamonds-the first 30 alone valued at $240,000-from Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the sadistic former "Emperor" of the Central African Republic...
...French satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné charged that President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, while serving as Finance Minister six years ago, had accepted a 30-carat tray of diamonds worth $240,000 from Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who was deposed as Emperor of the Central African Republic last month. There is no law prohibiting French politicians from accepting such largesse. The Elysée Palace, in fact, while trying to minimize what it called the "nature and value" of the gifts, did not deny that a "traditional exchange" had taken place. Bokassa also...
...Guadalcanal in 1943. Under the supervision of former Kennedy Aide and Curator David Powers, the library has amassed a collection that includes 13,000 objects of Kennedy memorabilia (including an alligator desk set given Kennedy by General Charles de Gaulle and a gold-and-silver bowl presented by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie). There are also 28 million pages of documents, 115,000 still photographs, 24,000 volumes and 1,200 recorded interviews. One million visitors are expected annually to trek to the handsome nine-story building of white precast concrete, overlooking Dorchester Bay on the University of Massachusetts' Harbor...
...Arens acknowledges occasional acts of cannibalism. Two weeks ago, for example, Emperor Bokassa I, the deposed leader of the Central African Republic, was reportedly accused of practicing cannibalistic rites. Examples of eating human flesh for survival in emergencies (e.g., the siege of Stalingrad, the Andes plane crash in 1972) also abound...
...million a year in aid. Giscard periodically flew off to hunt big game with the dictator and publicly hailed him as "my relative." Scoffed Socialist Leader François Mitterrand: "What do they mean, no bloodshed? Blood was flowing for years, and it was known in Paris. This comic emperor owed his power only to the complacency of French officials...