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...President was born in 1916 in the small southwestern town of Jarnac, in the Cognac region. His active political career began with World War II. Shot in the chest and captured near Verdun, he escaped from a German prison camp and joined the Resistance as an organizer of former P.O.W.s. Shortly after the war, Mitterrand was elected to the National Assembly as a candidate for the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance, a small but pivotal center party that won a surprising number of Cabinet posts under the Fourth Republic. Over a 13-year period, Mitterrand held eight Cabinet...
Gordon Whatley Verdun...
...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...