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...Sarkozy's own law prohibits deported foreigners guilty of crimes from returning to France for five years," notes Rochefort - who also thinks the sudden roundup was politically motivated. "He's trying to seduce voters from the extreme right with his anti-immigrant message, and this was supposed to show them, ?See, I even root them out in little remote rural towns of Brittany...
...perceived as one of the world's most corrupt, the most dramatic aspect of Ahmed's rule is his antigraft campaign against the establishment. So far, more than 160 senior politicians, top civil servants and security officials have been arrested on suspicion of graft and other economic crimes. The roundup has netted former ministers from the two main political parties and, most recently, even Zia's own son Tareque Rahman. Last week Rahman, 40, appeared in court to face a charge (which he denies) that he extorted $147,000 from the owner of a Dhaka construction firm. The government...
DIED. Maurice Papon, 96, French bureaucrat turned Paris police chief, convicted in 1998 of complicity in crimes against humanity; outside Paris. As a high-ranking officer of the Vichy regime based in southwestern France, he directed the roundup of some 1,600 Jews, whom he deported to German concentration camps. Papon, who said he had no idea what the Nazis planned for those French deportees and who was released from prison in 2002 for medical reasons, maintained in 2001 that he was "in no way responsible" for the murders of Jews...
...happy to see the old Leica camera in TIME'S picture roundup [Dec. 18]. It was completely appropriate that the best photos of 2006 were introduced by the camera of the last century! The Leica camera was the ultimate tool for many great professional photographers as well as the ultimate dream of so many great--and less great--amateurs. Notwithstanding the often superb quality of its competitors, anybody with a heart for photography has to admit that there was one camera prized above all: the Leica. INGEMAR LINDAHL Lidkoping, Sweden...
Assess your celebrity intelligence quotient with this week's roundup of supermodel shenanigans, TV-actor announcements and pop-diva cancellations...