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...charges against Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, 58, and seven of his associates, including a brother and a nephew, fill 53 pages crammed with 50 counts of racketeering, fraud and obstruction of justice. U.S. District Judge Marcel Livaudais Jr. needed one hour and 15 minutes just to read the allegations in New Orleans last week. All told, the trial could go on for two months and entail the examination of up to 80 witnesses. Even before the proceedings began, each of the jurors was sandbagged with five fat folders, 2 in. to 3 in. thick and packed with pertinent documents...
...eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the shooting stopped. In London, King George V celebrated by opening a bottle of brandy $ undisturbed since Waterloo. In Paris, Marcel Proust praised "the miraculous and vertiginous Peace." In Washington, President Woodrow Wilson looked for "something much better and more lasting than the selfish competitive interests of powerful states...
According to the U.S. Congressional Research Service, France ranked second only to the Soviet Union in arms orders from the Third World in 1984. Marcel de Picciotto, vice president of Matra, a French arms company, says that "any country that doesn't want to have its strings pulled by Washington and Moscow can come here without fear of meddling." But French government officials bristle at charges that the trade is opportunistic, or that they put weapons in the hands of radical governments. Says Francois Heisbourg, a former adviser to the Defense Ministry: "This country could probably be making several billion...
Unaccountably, Spacks' catalog of great gossips omits Marcel Proust, the greatest eavesdropper and scandalmonger of them all, as well as James Joyce, who, like so many of his fellow Dubliners, regarded rumor and innuendo as meat and drink. Still, her thesis holds. No one, from the whisperers about Socrates in ancient Athens to the viewers of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, could ever resist burbling about persons not present. If the rumors are written down, they are called gossip. If they are written up, they are called literature...
...abducted on March 16, 1984, making him the longest-held American captive. A fifth American, Peter Kilburn, 60, a librarian at the American University of Beirut, has been missing since December, but no mention of him was made last week. The two Frenchmen in the photographic lineup were Diplomats Marcel Fontaine and Marcel Carton...