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Victims Mourned FRANCE President Jacques Chirac and other government officials attended the mass funeral of 57 victims of the heat wave in August who had not been claimed by relatives. Overall, more than 11,400 perished. Chirac was criticized for failing to return from vacation to tackle the crisis.
AUG. 4 The first records are broken in the southwest, where temperatures reach 41C in the Bordeaux region and on the Atlantic coast. AUG. 10 Patrick Pelloux, head of France's emergency physicians' association, announces that some 50 people have died of heat-related illnesses in the Paris region in...
The 1930s were not kind to paul Klee. When the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933, the celebrated Bauhaus painter was denounced as a "typical Galician Jew" - no matter that he was neither. His deceptively childlike yet technically sophisticated work was branded "degenerate," "subversive" and "insane." Within months he...
In any event, as with many kids, home was a place that Arnold was looking to escape. When his father died while Arnold was living in the U.S., he did not return for the funeral. He has said variously that he was too deep into his training or that he...
was laid to rest. The press called for the resignation of a spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair who suggested that Kelly was a Walter Mitty fantasist. Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon was criticized for going on holiday instead of attending the funeral. Wave of Protest ICELAND The government's announcement...