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...first French mistake was to send in as a negotiator Major Pierre Gallopin, who had served as a military adviser to the Chad government in its efforts to wipe out the very rebels who captured Claustre. Habre ordered his execution-reportedly by slitting open his abdomen and tying him to the hind legs of a camel. Four later envoys escaped alive, but were no more successful than Galopin in liberating Claustre. At one point, France delivered an $880,000 ransom in cash and promised another $ 1.4 million in the form of nonmartial military goods, including a field hospital. Habre refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: End of an Ordeal | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...Prague's Rococo Theater last week, a big crowd rocked to a big beat as bearded Singer Waldemar Matuschka belted out his latest hit, a paean to the motherland called My Horse Is A-Gallopin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe: In the Socialist Groove | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

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