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...book, Magic, Myth and Medicine, Dr. Donald Atkinson describes how Balavignus, a Jewish doctor in the Strasbourg area, "following the sanitary laws set down by Leviticus . . . had all refuse burned. Naturally the rats left the ghettos and gravitated to gentile quarters in search of food. The Jews consequently suffered less from the disease than did their Christian neighbors . . . This was so noticeable that the Jews at once fell under suspicion." So the Christians murdered nearly all of the Jewish population...
Christopher Miller Strasbourg, France...
...most effective campaigner for the center-right coalition is Jacques Chirac, 45, the Gaullist leader and Paris mayor. Bouncing out of a Strasbourg hotel at 10 a.m. last week, he shouted to his aides, "Mount your horses!", climbed into a steel-gray Peugeot and led a 15-car caravan on the last leg of what has been a six-month, 30,000-mile-long barnstorming-style campaign all around France. Arriving at 10:30 in the town of Neudorf, he started pumping hands right away and was soon off on a day-long dash that took him to 15 campaign...
...from a "regime of liberty to a regime of socialism and back again to liberty. I don't say that Monsieur Mitterrand wishes to install a gulag in France," he conceded, but he warned that France under leftist rule would eventually resemble the Soviet-bloc countries. Back in Strasbourg that evening, Chirac delivered another rousing denunciation of the left to 4,500 Gaullist faithful. Sighed one elderly admirer: "He is the dauphin of Charles de Gaulle...
...breeds. Scott's Belgian wife, Alika, a former movie actress and novelist, encouraged him to become a naturalist after they met in 1967, when Scott was in his last year of philosophy studies at Cambridge University in England. With Alika, Scott studied animal psychology at the University of Strasbourg, and began turning his attention to a growing brood of rare monkeys that the two were collecting from friends who had tired of them as pets. In 1973 they bought a ramshackle 17th century manor house at Verlhiac, 100 miles northeast of Bordeaux, and turned it into a simian paradise...