Word: crematorium
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...heartline. But other nations are experiencing their own unhealthy twitches. France has its National Front, led by the anti-immigration populist Jean-Marie Le Pen. He has led the party to a solid 10% vote in a series of elections dating back to 1988, despite a penchant for crude crematorium quips, a reportedly secret admiration for Hitler and a not-so-secret racism. The extreme-right neofascist British National Party, which advocates anti-immigration policies, last year startled the political establishment by winning a seat in the local government of a poor London district. In May's municipal elections, they...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center. $5 for students. "Doctor Petiot" at 7 and 9 p.m. Marcel Petiot, a man who perpetrated a personal holocaust by operating a crematorium in his furnace, was one of the most enigmatic figures of occupied France. By day, he was a good doctor who treated the poor. But by night, he lured unsuspecting Jews into his snare in the guise of smuggling them to freedom and coldly destroyed them and stole their valuables. The insane genocidal climate of the times surely held to trigger his own latent madness and made him a monster...
...cafeteria burned, and rows of children's wooden bunk beds upstairs, as the flames spread faster, through the attic that ( ran the length of the building like a wind tunnel. It burned fast because it was built on the cheap, a tar-paper, yellow-pine and plasterboard crematorium...
...more precious than any other's. Patients with blast wounds or burns whose treatment was so time consuming that it would have been at the expense of others' lives were to be marked with blue toe tags and given no extraordinary lifesaving measures. The facility was equipped with a crematorium. Automatic weapons were stored at the site, and Bourassa says he would have implemented a shoot-to-kill order to prevent anyone not on the site's roster -- even family members of officials or locals -- from gaining access. He also instructed the staff that saboteurs and troublemakers were...
...than 75 casualities, including at least three deaths from heart attacks and three deaths--including the death of a three-year-old--from asphyxiation. Israel also endured severe psychological trauma from the constant threat of chemical and biological attack and Hussein's desire to turn Tel Aviv into a "crematorium...