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...private session with journalists last week, French President Francois Mitterrand described it as "criminal and absurd . . . and stupid." Indeed, whoever blew up and sank the Rainbow Warrior, flagship of the Greenpeace environmental organization, in New Zealand's Auckland harbor last July did not do France or its President any favor. As the usually pro-Mitterrand Paris daily Le Monde and other papers zeroed in on the culpability of the government in the mysterious act of sabotage, the President could no longer remain aloof from what was rapidly becoming one of France's worst political crises in the four years since...
John Belushi sank into a coma and died in March 1982, his body devastated by lethal dosages of heroin and cocaine, his arms disfigured by the red splotches of needle injections. A preliminary hearing started last week in Los Angeles Municipal Court to determine if Cathy Evelyn Smith, 38, a former singer and Belushi's companion during his final days, should be tried for second-degree murder in the 33-year-old comedian's death. Prosecution witnesses, among them former Saturday Night Live Writer Nelson Lyon, said they saw Smith give Belushi repeated drug injections...
...that there is no evidence on the ocean floor of any great impact, which suggests that the huge ship settled gently to the bottom. Only two of the Titanic's four mighty smokestacks remain in place; the others collapsed, perhaps when the ship's boilers exploded as they sank into the icy waters...
...pieces of the action. Larson sold his lifelong collection of baseball cards, which numbered nearly 300,000, keeping only those of the great Eddie Mathews because "he was my man." Soon after the agreement was reached, they went to Utica where, in a wind-driven icy rain, their spirits sank...
...Charles de Gaulle 17 years ago, to head an official commission of inquiry. As the accusations and conjectures multiplied, Tricot discreetly interviewed Premier Laurent Fabius, Vice Admiral Pierre Lacoste, head of the DGSE, and other high-ranking government and military officials. Tricot's mission is to find out who sank the Rainbow Warrior and who gave the orders to do it. His eagerly awaited report is expected to be issued this week...