Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last Monday afternoon, a Chevrolet station wagon carrying five Palestinians drove slowly down the Rue Verdun in west Beirut. As it passed a parked Volkswagen, a huge plastique bomb turned the street into a violent shambles of smoke and flames. The occupants of the station wagon were mortally wounded; four passersby, including a German nun and an English student, were killed, and 18 others were injured...
...Caribbean. But I can't just go out and get on an airplane. I don't know if I can ever fly from one country to another again." For several months he had been staying off and on in an apartment just off the Rue Verdun with his second wife, Georgina, a former Miss Universe. Last month he ordered heavy steel rollers installed in the windows...
...them veterans of the Lillehammer debacle, were involved in the operation. The most curious of the known suspects was a woman later identified as traveling on a British passport issued in 1975 in the name of Erika Mary Chambers. Three months ago, she rented an apartment overlooking the Rue Verdun. She appeared to be an eccentric middle-aged spinster, known to her neighbors as Penelope, who loved stray cats and sketched street scenes from her window...
Some time on Jan. 17, the P L O believes, Penelope met with Scriver and Kolberg and told them what she had observed of Abu Hassan's movements on the Rue Verdun. After that, Scriver apparently drove his rented Volkswagen to a secret garage, equipped it with explosives and detonating devices, then slipped out of Lebanon, possibly on a Middle East Airlines flight to Athens Around 2:30 in the afternoon on Jan 22 someone parked the Volkswagen in the Rue Verdun about 100 yds. from Abu Hassan's apartment. Palestinian investigators speculate that Penelope had been watching...
With this ringing rhetoric, delivered to an audience of 20,000 under a huge tent in the small Burgundian town of Verdun-sur-le-Doubs, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing finally jumped into his country's roiling political campaign. At stake when the electorate chooses a new National Assembly in late March may be the political stability of the Fifth Republic. With the latest polls now indicating that the leftist opposition will win a 25-to 27-seat majority in the Assembly despite the breach between the Socialists and their erstwhile Communist allies, there...