Word: ouen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest episode happened last week. In the "Red Belt" Paris suburb of St. Ouen, 1,600 French Communists filed into an oyster-shaped sports arena for their 22nd Party Congress. A sign inside the hall proclaimed: A DEMOCRATIC ROAD TO SOCIALISM-A SOCIALISM FOR FRANCE. Party Leader Georges Marchais amplified that soothing slogan in a five-hour opening address that amounted to a cautious declaration of independence from Moscow...
Police promptly arrested Massol, who decided to share his secret with them after cooling his heels for a few hours at police headquarters on the Quai des Orfèvres. He led the cops to a garage in the working-class suburb of Saint-Ouen, where the casket was found in the back of a small truck. Police subsequently arrested three of Massol's alleged accomplices: they included François Boux de Casson, a former right-wing Deputy in the Assembly and once a propaganda officer in the Vichy government, and Michel Dumas, owner of a marble tomb...