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...such subterfuges would probably not have satisfied critics or kept Khrushchev from making whatever use he wanted of the incident. And for all Khrushchev's claims, the U.S. was convinced that an oxygen-system failure or an en gine "flame-out" had forced Pilot Powers down within rocket range, and, most importantly, that the Soviets still do not have an antiaircraft rocket capable of reaching the U2's operating altitude...
...most devoted, perhaps, of all the stern young abbe's admirers was the rosy-cheeked peasant girl Régine, with whose family the priest often dined on Saturdays. Eager to help in his work. Régine took on the job of tending the church altar and the sacerdotal robes, and her kindly parents were proud indeed of their daughter -proud, that is, until one day early this year when Régine told them that she was pregnant and refused to name the father of her unborn child...
Time at last healed the wound in the parents' hearts, however, and by last week, though Régine still refused to name its father, her own mother and father bought a crib and layette and were looking forward to the birth of their grandchild. But it was not to be. One night, haggard and distracted, the young parish priest rushed in to report a fearful thing: he had found Régine shot through the head on a country road, beside her the child, cut out of her body and cruelly stabbed to death...
...perpetrated such a frightful crime? After a night of questioning, the police got the answer from the criminal himself-the frustrated surgeon-turned-priest, who had performed his first operation on the dead body of his mistress. "I offered Régine absolution before I killed her," said the Abbé Desnoyers...
...judges and their associates were themselves, in effect, the accused-though many of them were dead by then " -that made possible her sure but slow acceptance as a Roman Catholic saint (she was finally canonized in 1920). The rehabilitation trial is now again brought to light by Régine Pernoud, chief archivist of the Museum of French History (The Retrial of Joan of Arc; Harcourt, Brace; $4.75). The record, on the whole, backs popular opinion, which regards the judges who sent Joan to the stake as villains. It speaks of English bribery and pressure, Joan's imprisonment...