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Freshman Matthew Button (157 lbs.) was also unable to secure a win, losing his first match 16-0 to Keith Gavin of Pittsburgh. Cooper Fouch from UC Davis pinned Button in his second match...
DIED. Jacobus Johannes Fouché, 82, who as Defense Minister of South Africa helped turn the country into a virtual fortress of white apartheid rule and later served as President from 1968 to 1975; in Cape Town. In 1962, fearing an attack by a black "army of liberation" based in other African nations, Fouché initiated South Africa's largest-ever peacetime military buildup and warned its neighbors: "Stay where you are or there will be trouble...
Atlanta's Barbara Fouch concentrates more on appearances. She left full-time modeling in 1969 to become vice president and part owner of the integrated Peachtree Center Models, Inc., which now has annual billings of $180,000. She also has won four antipoverty contracts totaling $70,000 from the Federal Government to teach slum children etiquette, posture and neatness-to help make it easier for them to get jobs...
...grudge. The son of a poverty-stricken Italian family, Ermacora served in Algeria with the French Foreign Legion and later developed a fierce resentment against his adopted country for abandoning its former colony. So when he went to work as an assistant accountant for the prosperous firm of Carel Fouché Languepin, manufacturers of railroad equipment, he decided to take his revenge. As he told a judge in Paris: "My company was a representative of French capitalism and as such responsible for abandoning Algeria...
...French all but invented the modern police force, under the guiding genius of Joseph Fouché, who served the nation's regimes from the Revolution to the Restoration. He finally retired in 1816, and no French leader since then has been able to disentangle the mysterious, proliferating networks-within-net-works of French security agencies. Today France has no fewer than a dozen, ranging from the trench-coated men from S.D.E.C.E. (Service de Documentation Extérieure et Contre-Espionnage) to the blue-frocked flics. So, when friendly intelligence agents from another country ask French help in getting their...