Word: vermeulen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evening in 1976, Woodcutters Rene Vermeulen, 31, and Andre Rousseau, 30, climbed over the fence outside Legras' cottage, forced open a door and broke into the cupboard. Vermeulen , turned the radio on, and the cartridges exploded. He was thrown to the floor, his chest ripped open and his right hand blown away; Rousseau, partially blinded, went for help. Vermeulen died; Rousseau, one eye permanently damaged, was charged with attempted burglary...
...stay on and delay the appointment, perhaps so that Monsignor Karen Kastell, a Dutch moderate in the Vatican evangelism office, could be made a bishop and groomed for Alfrink's job. The favored candidate of the Dutch hierarchy was Alfrink's top assistant in Utrecht, Anton Vermeulen. But the Curia found Vermeulen too independent-minded, and Paul may also have been reluctant to appear to recognize any right of the Dutch bishops to pick Alfrink's successor...