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...Among the dead was Restaurant Owner Giovacchino Landini, 49. "Why did it have to be him?" cried his daughter Monica, 22. "He was too passionately fond of Juventus." Of the dead, 31 were Italians, including a ten-year-old boy and a woman. Also killed were four Belgians, two Frenchmen and a Briton who was a resident of Brussels. All the dead were asphyxiated or crushed. Ten spectators, all British, were arrested, none for alleged offenses committed inside the stadium...
Once again the grainy color photographs showed the harrowed faces of hostages. This time the pictures of four Americans and two Frenchmen, delivered last Thursday to several daily newspapers in Beirut and printed by some of them the next day, came accompanied by an ominous warning: unless the government of Kuwait agreed to release 17 Muslim fundamentalist terrorists jailed there for bombing the U.S. and French embassies in December 1983, the American captives would suffer "catastrophic consequences" and their captors would "terrorize America and France forever...
...Embassy Official William Buckley, 56, who was abducted on March 16, 1984, making him the longest-held American captive. A fifth American, Peter Kilburn, 60, a librarian at the American University of Beirut, has been missing since December, but no mention of him was made last week. The two Frenchmen in the photographic lineup were Diplomats Marcel Fontaine and Marcel Carton...
...unfortunately, we learn nothing about the natives and little about who the Frenchmen are aside from their careers or significant personal events. This is excusable in real history when evidence lacks, but a good pop historian should always ascribe possible motivations to his characters, drawn form the genre's sister-science, pop psychology...
Jean-Louis Chavel is one of 30 Frenchmen being held in a small prison block by the occupying German army. Chavel, a lawyer before the war, and his fellow detainees know exactly why their captors provide them food and shelter: the involuntary guests are hostages, meant to discourage local Resistance violence against the Nazis. This deterrent, of course, does not work. Two Germans are killed, and the order comes down from the prison commander: one out of every ten prisoners is to be executed at sunrise. The men themselves must choose the victims. Lots are drawn, and Chavel finds himself...