Word: suburb
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Paul Touvier, the first Frenchman to be tried for crimes against humanity, went on trial in Versailles. Touvier, who served as intelligence chief for a pro-Nazi militia during World War II, stands accused of ordering the execution of seven Jews in a Lyons suburb...
Daniel grew up in the middle-class London suburb of Greenwich. Home life was akin to A Room with a View; street life was My Beautiful Laundrette, a jumble of good times and hard prejudices. "In my case," he says in his gently urgent, upper-class voice, "they could have chosen any one of a number of insults, since I was Irish and Jewish, and from a different class to most of the kids. They knew that because of my voice. But children are very adaptable. They're great performers: they perform for their parents all the time, to find...
...sweltering August afternoon in 1991, three dark-haired men approached an ivy-covered villa in the Paris suburb of Suresnes. It was the home of Shahpour Bakhtiar, 76, exiled former Prime Minister of Iran and a leader of the anti- Khomeini opposition. Since fleeing Tehran in 1979, Bakhtiar had been one of the most closely guarded men in France, watched over by paramilitary police 24 hours...
...April 24, 1990, Rajavi, 56, was heading for his home in the Geneva suburb of Coppet. Shortly before noon, a Volkswagen Golf swerved in front of his car and sprayed the windshield with bullets. Two gunmen jumped out of a second car and methodically pumped five bullets into Rajavi's head. One of the killers leaned over and tucked a navy blue baseball cap into the door pocket. It was the third time police had found a blue baseball cap at the scene of an Iranian assassination...
...straw" phenomenon. "They all want charts of the fault lines in our area," explains Karen Lind, deputy director of Colorado's business-development office in Denver. "We decided to get out right after the earthquake," says Dubi Friedman, 47, owner of a clothing-design firm in the northern L.A. suburb of Valencia, who is moving to Las Vegas with his wife Irit and two children. "The damage is nothing. It's the scare. You go to bed downstairs with your shoes on. You don't sleep. You just sit there waiting for it every night...