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Last week he became Prisoner 983 in a small provincial lockup in Evreux, a town of 30,000 on the fringes of Normandy, 60 miles from Paris. His shoelaces, necktie, belt and wristwatch have been taken away; his only companions are a pimp and a chicken thief, and he spends his time reading Balzac's La Comédie Humaine. The joke, of sorts, was on Rhadames Trujillo, 22, multimillionaire son of the Dominican Republic's late dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Rhadames and three others of the high-living Trujillo clan suddenly face a court fight over...
...first it seemed like another in the long series of racial incidents in the armed forces. It began one evening as a group of Negro soldiers of the 557th Quartermaster Company were returning to their barracks at the big U.S. air-base at Evreux, 62 miles west of Paris. Across the road lay another barracks, housing the 317th Supply Squadron, where the airmen were winding up a "G.I. party," that is, a cleanup before next morning's inspection...
Death at Dawn. The Negroes passing by were noisy, and someone shouted at them from a second-story window of the Supply Squadron barracks. No one knows who did the shouting. No one agrees on what was shouted. But unquestionably, the shouts contained what Negro soldiers at Evreux call "the magic word"-nigger. Rushing into their own barracks, the Negroes grabbed 12-in. metal rods used to transform beds into bunks and raced across the street...
...picked out their assailants, who were all PFCs: Richard Parker of Eckman, W. Va., Edward Spears of New York City, Raymond Host of Pittsburgh, Franklin Waddell and Robert Burrell of Philadelphia. The arrested men were Negroes, the injured and the dead whites. Even so, there was a debate at Evreux as to whether or not the fatal brawl was indeed a race riot...
Moments later, the Hercules took off from Evreux, France. When it flew across the West German border into the southern corridor at 25,000 ft., three Soviet jet fighters closed in, wheeled to within 10 ft. of the transport's wingtips, buzzed annoyingly until it entered the landing pattern of Berlin's Tempelhof airport. On the return trip, also at 25,000 ft., it was harassed by Russian fighters all the way through the corridor to the western borders of Communist-held East Germany...