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...great bravery, earning a reputation for combat discipline, skill in training men and planning tactical military operations. Two years ago, he created a new drill for light-infantry companies and pioneered a new system whereby flexible, fast-paced companies were attached to every regiment of the line. Lord George Germain, Britain's Secretary of State for the American Colonies and a leading advocate of an aggressive policy, remarked when Howe was appointed that no other officer was so well qualified to teach European soldiers how to fight from "behind trees, walls or hedges...
...gray afternoon of Oct. 29, 1965, Mehdi Ben Barka-a self-exiled left-wing Moroccan politician and a well-known critic of King Hassan II -was stopped outside the Brasserie Lipp on Paris's Boulevard St. Germain by two French agents. "You have a rendezvous with some politicians," said one of them. Ben Barka, 45, who was accustomed to being tailed by the police, climbed into the back of an unmarked Peugeot 403. The car drove off. Ben Barka has not been seen in public since...
...great museum events of the past 20 years. This is due in no small part to the detail. Rather than being a portmanteau of highlights, the exhibition includes an immense range of underrated "minor" figures like the neoclassicists Jean-François-Pierre Peyron and Jean Germain Drouais. The subject matter runs from the grandest of historical paintings to an eccentric still life with stuffed birds; the figures, from a swooning and epicene Death of Hyacinth by Jean Broc to the passionate and despairing cragginess of Delacroix's Christ in the Garden of Olives, 1827 (see color page...
...with half a dozen Republican notables in tow, flew on to Minot, N. Dak. Addressing the guests at a $100-a-plate dinner, the first ever held by local Republicans, Rocky paid glowing tribute to every politician in the room: "I had the pleasure of standing next to Dave Germain, during the reception . . . Also just a word to thank the Bishop Ryan High School chorus and Mrs. Koenig, who is their leader." A local Republican made the inevitable comparison: "Agnew once came out here and just stood around not shaking hands with anybody...
Married. John A. Scali, 54, former newsman and new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; and Denise St. Germain, 38, who once worked for the CIA in Paris and Rome, and most recently served as an assistant to TIME'S Washington bureau chief; he for the second time, she for the first; in Washington...