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...bullet-riddle corpse and a girl with a gun baffle a battered Nestor Burma in "The Bloody Streets of Paris...
...black and white images are of wartime in the 1940s. Nestor Burma, private detective, sticks his head out of the train window as it pulls out of the busy urban station. In the crowd of soldiers and milling civilians he spies his chunky colleague, Bob, who chases after the train, waving for Burma to get off. Suddenly, Bob clutches his chest. He shouts an address, "120, rue de la Gare," and falls, the back of his coat soaked in blood from multiple gunshots. As Burma tumbles out of the train, a beautiful girl in a trench coat stands...
...Robert Crumb were ever to adapt Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade books, it would have something of the resonance this Tardi/Malet team has for this work. Malet's Nestor Burma, detective de choc, or ace detective, appears in multiple hardboiled volumes and has been adapted to film and television. Tardi, like Crumb, became a major comix creator during the 1970s, though unlike Crumb, he didn't have to go underground to do it. Art Spiegelman's forward to the book describes Tardi as "one of the single most influential comix artists to come out of the French adult comics revolution...
...torturing and murdering opponents during the country's "Dirty War" two decades ago. Human rights groups claim that about 1,000 officials - implicated in the murder of as many as 30,000 people during the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983 - could be prosecuted as a result. With President Nestor Kirchner in favor of sweeping away the protection, only the Supreme Court could stand in the way of future convictions. Safe and Sand MALI Fourteen hostages were freed after being held for up to six months in the Sahara desert by Muslim extremists. The nine Germans, four Swiss...
...talks in Ghana, the rebels demanded Taylor resign and allow the formation of a government of national unity. The rebels, a ragtag collection of groups opposing Taylor, have been fighting for three years to oust him. Overdue Overhaul ARGENTINA Wasting no time since becoming President by default last month, Nestor Kirchner fired 10 of 12 senior police commissioners and called on Congress to impeach the widely despised Supreme Court. He also forced more than 50 military generals and admirals into retirement, naming lower-ranking generals in their place. Kirchner said his anticorruption drive was crucial to solving the country...