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...police have ruled Loiseau's death, at 52, a suicide. But in France, the killer is still considered at large. Last week Loiseau's fellow chefs accused the guidebooks of murder. "Bravo, GaultMillau. You have won," declared Paul Bocuse, the famous dean of French chefs. Bocuse, who spoke to Loiseau the day before he died, says his friend had been deeply affected by the rankings demotion and by newspaper articles speculating that he might lose one of his three Michelin stars, which turned out to be untrue. "He was very anxious. He felt out of breath," Bocuse says. "You know...
CONVICTED. ERNEST AVANTS, 72, former Ku Klux Klansman; of the 1966 murder of a black man, Ben Chester White, as part of a plot to lure the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King to Natchez, Miss., where Avants and two coconspirators allegedly planned to assassinate the civil rights leader; in Jackson, Miss...
...authorities are also attributing to the MILF. They claim Sudang, the suspected suicide bomber, was an MILF member, and Mayor Duterte says Sudang's name appears in MILF documents seized by the army last month. Last Friday, police in the Philippines filed a complaint with Davao prosecutors seeking multiple murder charges against 150 members of the MILF, including Salamat...
...jails house about 7,000 inmates serving 25-to-life terms under this law - roughly 350 of them received their final strike for petty theft. In the Supreme Court dissenting opinion, Justice Stephen Breyer noted that in most states, 25 years to life is the sentence for first-degree murder, not shoplifting. The attorney general's office points to a 1996 California Supreme Court ruling that judges and attorneys can disregard priors in three strikes cases...
GREECE In an Athens courtroom last week, 19 alleged members of the Marxist-Leninist terror group November 17 went on trial for a murderous, three-decade terror campaign that has claimed the lives of 23 people, starting with the 1975 assassination of CIA Athens station chief Richard Welch. The 19, including one woman, face a total of 2,000 counts of murder, bombing and bank robbery, among other charges. The alleged mastermind of the campaign, urbane French-born economist Alexandros Yiotopoulos, whose penchant for tweed jackets belies the image of a terrorist leader, rebuffed the allegations, calling them part...