Word: moulins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Debate topics can range from the serious to the silly, and are usually fairly nebulous aphorisms and value judgments. De Moulin said...
...armored truck. Next day, at Marble House, former summer home ("cottage," in local parlance) of Harold Vanderbilt, himself an America's Cup legend, the unlovely pitcher was presented to its new owners and started the 11,620-mile trip to Perth. But first Liberty Syndicate Head Edward du Moulin gave Skipper Bertrand Liberty's dark blue burgee. Then N.Y.Y.C. Commodore Robert Stone presented Bond with "the bolt that's kept the Cup in place for 132 years." And Lexcen, who once told a reporter that he would like to steamroller the Cup and turn it into...
...infamous "Butcher of Lyon." While serving as head of the Gestapo in Lyon from 1942 to 1944, Barbie ordered the execution of more than 4,000 people and the deportation of 7,000 French Jews to concentration camps. His hands were also stained with the blood of Jean Moulin, France's most revered Resistance leader, who is believed to have died under torture in 1943. Twice Barbie was tried in absentia for his crimes and sentenced to death by French tribunals. But for more than three decades the Nazi managed to escape punishment and, indeed, prospered in Bolivia under...
...Moulin's compatriots, of course, eventually triumphed in 1944 and Barbie, along with most occupation officers, was interned by the U.S. Army on war crime charges. What happened after that remains somewhat controversial to this day. According to France's renowned war criminal experts, Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, American intelligence agents secretly recruited Barbie to conduct spying missions in eastern Germany immediately following Hitler's defeat. Barbie supposedly helped gather information on Soviet troop positions as well as on the whereabouts of other Gestapo fugitives wanted by Allied authorities; in return he was given a false identity, a home...
...today, on the other hand, still enjoy reliving their halcyon days when the communist underground inspired brave fighters to risk their lives in dangerous sabotage missions against the Germans. Thus the French socialist president Francois Mitterand, in his very first symbolic act in office, solemnly paid a visit to Moulin's tomb in the Pantheon of Paris. And now, he will have the bittersweet satisfaction of seeing Moulin's killer brought to justice...