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...allied ships. Egypt provided many of the artillery pieces and secondhand, Soviet- built tanks that imperil allied soldiers on the ground. And the U.S. encouraged other nations to supply the sophisticated aircraft, advanced armored vehicles and other weaponry that threaten coalition soldiers. "It angers me," says 1st Lieut. Alan Leclerc, a U.S. Marine pilot who flies daily sorties into Iraq and Kuwait. "Countries of the world need to be a little more discreet about whom they sell weapons to, and that includes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Arsenal: Who Armed Baghdad | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

SENTENCED. Robert Leclerc, 67, prominent Swiss banker and shelterer of foreign tax dodgers, whose private bank came up $199 million short in a 1977 scandal that rocked Geneva's financial establishment and triggered apparent suicides by two fellow bank officials; to five years for "fraudulent management and abuse of confidence"; in Geneva...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 3, 1985 | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...result of a 1904 the been controlled largely by a cartel known as General Funerals. Entrepreneur Michel Leclerc thinks that is unfair. Says the businessman: "A bride can choose her wedding dress anywhere she pleases. We should be able to choose our coffins anywhere we please as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monopolies: Undercutting the Undertakers | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

...prices 10% to 50% less than those charged by the organized undertakers (Paris average: $1,170), Leclerc will give clients the ultimate sendoff. His prices include a coffin, a golden hearse, pallbearers and burial. But the price, not the frills, he feels, is the attraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monopolies: Undercutting the Undertakers | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

...industrious Leclerc franchiser in the town of Angoulême, who has conducted 409 funerals in defiance of the law, was fined $116,000 by the Bordeaux court of appeals. At one Leclerc funeral in Charleville-Mézières, the family of the deceased received threatening phone calls and the funeral director was roughed up. Leclerc, though, insists he will go on offering his services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monopolies: Undercutting the Undertakers | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

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