Word: teau
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...acts of brutality. Although no one wants to be reminded that both sides occasionally shot prisoners, usually because they lacked the time or means to guard them, one notorious exception is the 12th SS Panzer Division's murder of nearly 40 Canadian and British prisoners in a château garden near Bayeux. Liska's unit ran into a handful of soldiers in German uniforms from the conquered Eastern territories who had probably been pressed into service. Said Liska, "They kept saying they were Russians or Poles. The Americans didn't know who was who so they shot them...
...16th arrondissement still appears in the latest Chanel outfits but has given up sit-down dinners for 40 in favor of buffets for ten and less expensive champagne (Veuve Cliquot instead of Dom Perignon). The elderly count in Provence dwells in one wing of an otherwise shuttered château he hesitates to sell because of the government's "wealth tax" of up to 2.5% on assets over...
...arrow into the rumps of this fellow's medieval predecessors. The most famous of his kind, France's devious voluptuary Nicolas Fouquet, was clapped into jail by Louis XIV, who rightly smelled a rat when he visited Fouquet's magnificent Vaux-le-Vicomte, a château that put the Sun King's palaces to shame. King Louis healed the insult by building Versailles...
...battleground. One young man had his hand blown off by a concussion grenade; another was hit in the face with a tear-gas canister and lost his lower lip. In the nearby town of Réhon, a gang of workers set fire to an elegant château frequented by factory managers; volunteer firemen, themselves off-duty steelworkers, refused to fight the blaze. When the long night was finally over, 15 people had been injured and 25 arrested in eight hours of skirmishes...
...strategy seemed to fall flat. In Washington, President Reagan deftly countered Andropov by challenging the Soviets "to negotiate seriously at Geneva" and vowing that the U.S. "will stay at the negotiating table as long as necessary." NATO defense ministers, meeting last week at the Canadian resort of Château Montebello, near Ottawa, summarily dismissed the Soviet walkout threat and announced that NATO planned unilaterally to scrap 1,400 existing warheads in Western Europe during the next five or six years. The weapons are part of the alliance's stockpile of tactical nuclear arms, which many experts feel...