Word: shopgirls
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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November 1970: After years of searching, Bokassa-now President of the remote little Central African Republic and the father of eleven children by his present wife-receives word that the South Vietnamese government has found his first family. Martine, a shapely Saigon shopgirl, flies 11,000 miles to Bangui, her father's capital. Though she arrives at 4:30 a.m., a visibly moved Bokassa and thousands of his cheering countrymen are on hand to greet...
Born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm, the illegitimate son of a Liibeck shopgirl, he was raised by his grandfather to be a fervent blue-collar socialist. In 1933, to escape arrest by the Gestapo, he changed his name to Willy Brandt and fled to Scandinavia. In Norway and Sweden, his doctrinaire socialism was mellowed by experience of the more pragmatic Scandinavian brand...