Word: leclerc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past week's goings on. Equally solicitous are Proprietors Georges and Gerty Heraux of the Sans Souci, who sometimes put up last-minute guests in their own home if no room is available at the hotel. Despite the construction noise, the same hospitality is evident at Habitation Leclerc, a new $1.5 million resort complex being built on a Port-au-Prince hillside by Olivier Coquelin, owner of Manhattan's Hippopotamus discotheque. Hans von Meiss-Teuffen, manager of the resort, will often meet guests at the airport, take them on tours of the capital and order up special meals...
...only Breton, the native Celtic tongue of Brittany. Up rose District Attorney Pierre Aguiton with an objection. "The defendant speaks and understands French perfectly," he protested. "Otherwise, how could he have finished his medical studies? Besides, he answered pretrial questioning in French." Retorted Gourvès' lawyer, Henri Leclerc: "He may have forgotten his French in jail." The chief judge, François Romerio, asked Gourvès if he had anything to say. "Ne gomzin nemet e brezhoneg [I will speak only in Breton]," replied the doctor. "I withdraw your right to speak," said Romerio...
...Leclerc scored the tying and winning goals...