Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to the notice, Jean B. Baptiste, a.k.a. John Baptiste, approached the unidentified student and "attempted to engage the student in a conversation" on the afternoon of June...
When contacted, a man who identified himself as both Jean B. Baptiste and the individual on the flyer, did not answer questions about the matter...
...Jean L. Scheidnes contributed to the reporting of this article...
...Jean-Marie Le Pen laughing? Because the truculent, acid-tongued far-right leader sees himself as the real winner of France's parliamentary elections. The snap vote, called by Gaullist President Jacques Chirac in a disastrous blunder, not only ousted a center-right majority that Le Pen reviles, it also vastly increased the clout of Le Pen's anti-immigrant National Front, which polled nearly 15% in the first round of voting and played a decisive role in the June 1 runoff. Though only one party member was elected, because of the mechanics of France's majority voting system...
...Mayor Jacques Bompard, 54, caused a scandal last summer when he censored a list of books ordered by the municipal library, blackballing "leftist" writers in favor of far-right authors. Marignane's mayor, Daniel Simonpieri, 45, has put his local library in a similar ideological vise. Toulon's mayor, Jean-Marie Le Chevallier, 60, who won the Front's only parliamentary seat this month, forbade organizers of the local book fair to give a literary award to Jewish writer Marek Halter, claiming his work was too "internationalist." Demoralized and dispirited though they are, opponents of the Front's municipal governments...