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DIED. HENRI ROL-TANGUY, 94, legendary figure of the French Resistance and hero of the liberation of Paris, who with General Philippe Leclerc presided over the German surrender on Aug. 25, 1944; in Monteaux, France. A member of the French Communist Party from the age of 17, Rol-Tanguy joined Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War, then began organizing armed resistance in Paris from mid-1941. After retiring from the Army in 1962 he remained active in the Communist Party, serving on its central committee until...
Every day spent in this part of Africa is acutely depressing: there is so little countervailing hope to all the stories of the dead and the doomed. "More than anywhere else in the world, AIDS in Africa was met with apathy," says Suzanne LeClerc-Madlala, a lecturer at the University of Natal. The consequences of the silence march on: infection soars, stigma hardens, denial hastens death, and the chasm between knowledge and behavior widens. The present disaster could be dwarfed by the woes that loom if Africa's epidemic rages on. The human losses could wreck the region's frail...
Technical Director Brian R. Leclerc, who has not worked on a production since August, is a bit rusty...
...Saints, has begun testing a new website www.familysearch.org that eventually will be a repository of 600 million names, extracted from vital records worldwide. The Mormons consider genealogy part of their mission and have the world's most extensive records. "I think it is a wonderful site," says Michael Leclerc, reference librarian at the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston. "It is giving the most widespread access ever to the world's largest genealogical repository...
...sales pitch something like that persuaded the United Arab Emirates to order 390 of France's state-of-the-art AMX Leclerc battle tanks for an estimated $3.5 billion, beating out the American Abrams M1A2 and British Challenger 2. The deal, which also buys the U.A.E. 46 noncombat tanks and armored escort vehicles, represents a major victory for financially beset, state-owned Giat Industries and gives France a greater foothold in the lucrative Middle Eastern armaments market. Since the Gulf War, the Gulf Cooperation Council alone has placed $40 billion in military-hardware orders...