Mémoires de Guerre

publié le 20/12/1999 à 18h15 Chaque jour, des événements qui ont eu lieu des années, des dizaines d’années, des centaines d’années auparavant… Evènements : 21 décembre 1995 : La ville de Bethléem passe sous contrôle palestinien. 21 décembre 1991 : 11...

published 20/12/1999 at 01:37 GMT by Dennis Barker The perfect broadcaster, from the BBC Radio British Empire Service through the declaration of war to TV's Nine O'Clock News BBC TV's Nine O'Clock News has made many easy reputations for its presenters:...

published 18/12/1999 at 01:09 GMT by Dennis Barker Pioneering broadcaster on Woman's Hour and reassuring voice to a nation at war Marjorie Anderson, who has died aged 86, was one of the women who made BBC radio's Woman's Hour. Reliable, immaculately spoken...

publié le 17/12/1999 à 16h18 Cela s'est passé un 20 décembre Evènements : 20 décembre 1997 : Nelson Mandela fait ses adieux à l'ANC, son dauphin Thabo Mbeki lui succède à la présidence. 20 décembre 1996 : Mise en liberté sous contrôle judiciaire de Jacques...

publié le 17/12/1999 à 16h14 Cela s'est passé un 19 décembre Evènements : 19 décembre 1986 : l’URSS annonce la libération du dissident Andrei Sakharov. 19 décembre 1984 : la Grande-Bretagne et la Chine signent un accord qui prévoit la rétrocession de...

publié le 17/12/1999 à 16h11 Ce s'est passé un 20 décembre Evènements : 18 décembre 1994 : mise à jour des plus anciennes peintures rupestres au monde dans une grotte ardéchoise par le découvreur éponyme Jean-Marie Chauvet. 18 décembre 1985 : Marne-la-Vallée...

Le Point publié le 17/12/1999 à 16:05 La porte s'est refermée lourdement. Je suis seule dans la nuit. A peine ai-je pu apercevoir les murs nus de la cellule. [...] Quel sort m'attend ? Il arrive que les exécutions aient lieu ainsi de nuit. Pour le moment,...

publié le 17/12/1999 à 07h28 Cela s'est passé un 17 décembre... Evènements : 17 décembre 1996 : le ghanéen Kofi Annan devient le septième secrétaire général des Nations Unies. 17 décembre 1996 : au Pérou, le commando révolutionnaire Tupac Amaru prend...

published 17/12/1999 at 00:52 GMT by Catherine Belsey Cultural critic undaunted by words, wisdom and waiters The scholar and critic Antony Easthope, who has died aged 60, was a controversialist and an engaged intellectual in a way more common abroad than...

published 17/12/1999 at 00:52 GMT by Hugo Estenssoro The Colombian writer and diplomat German Arciniegas, who has died of pneumonia aged 99, was a radical, an iconoclast who described himself as an "intellectual agitator", and a chronicler of the five...

published 16/12/1999 at 01:54 GMT by Dan Franklin Fiercely uncompromising writer who raged against the publishing establishment because he felt his talent was undervalued Peter Everett's novel Matisse's War (1996), an extraordinary fictional account of...

Yugoslav hardliner who moved to crush dissent in Kosovo nearly two decades ago Stane Dolanc, who has died of a stroke aged 74, was a lifelong Slovene communist and Yugoslav hardliner, and a key figure in the repressive security apparatus of Yugoslavia,...

Swissinfo publié le 15/12/1999 à 17:57 par Frédéric Burnand Serge Klarsfeld rend hommage à l'action du CICR durant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale Le président de l'Association des fils et filles de déportés juifs de France a présenté ce mercredi un recueil...

publié le 15/12/1999 à 15h16 C'est aujourd'hui l'anniversaire de la mort d'Alphonse Daudet. Evènements : 16 décembre 1991 : Le Kazakhstan déclare son indépendance. 16 décembre 1991 : L’assemblée générale des Nations Unies abroge une résolution de 1975...

Le Nouvel Observateur publié le 14/12/1999 à 16h59 C'est aujourd'hui l'anniversaire de la mort de Walt Disney. 15 décembre 1996 La firme Boeing annonce son projet d’acquérir pour 13,3 milliards de dollars son concurrent McDonnell Douglas. 15 décembre...

published 14/12/1999 at 10:31 GMT by Eric Homberger Writer who turned his wartime experience into one of the best-selling novels of the century, and added Catch-22 to the language The creative life of Joseph Heller, author of the comic anti-war masterpiece...

Publisher, biographer, editor and man of letters, he was a prodigious star in the British literary firmament Sir Rupert Hart-Davis , who has died aged 92, made his name in a variety of literary endeavours: as founder of a distinguished publishing house...

published 09/12/1999 at 07:24 by Berry Ritchie THE BIZARRE circumstances surrounding the death of Edmond Safra, choked by smoke in a locked bathroom where he was hiding from supposed assailants, were in themselves enough to trigger worldwide media coverage...

published 09/12/1999 at 03.23 GMT by Donald Sassoon Italy's leading post-war woman politician and a founding mother of the republic Nilde Iotti, who has died aged 79, was the most important woman politician in post-war Italy and a founding mother of the...

Si tu cries, si tu bouges, tu subiras le même sort que Nathalie, qui a été découpée en 17 morceaux à partir du cou. C'est la nuit du 7 au 8 novembre 1997, la foire d'automne bat son plein à la place Léopold, face à la gare de Mons. Lorsque Brigitte, la...

published 08/12/1999 at 01;07 GMT by Harold Jackson Trailblazing US judge who fought death penalty Rose Bird, who has died aged 63, was the first woman ever appointed to the California supreme court and, because of her sustained campaign to abolish the...

As one of the architects of biothermodynamics, the science that deals with variations in the body's heat, Theo Benzinger, who has died aged 94, invented a vital piece of medical equipment - the ear thermometer - while working at the United States Naval...

published 07/12/1999 at 02:37 GMT by Lucy Sisman The inspired mastermind behind Vogue for more than 20 years, he changed the face of fashion magazines around the world Anyone with any doubt as to the extent of the influence of Alexander Liberman, who...

Mrs Munchnick, Empress Nympho, El Sleezo Patron, Mrs Montenegro, Estie DelRuth, Lily Von Shtupp, Trixie Delight, Gorgeous Teitelbaum: there are few actresses who have gloried in so many weirdly named characters as the wonderful comedienne Madeline Kahn,...

published 04/12/1999 at 02:13 GMT by Alex Brummer Banker who kept his money in the family Edmond Safra, who died violently in Monaco yesterday at the age of 67, was one of the outstanding figures in 20th-century banking. Although less well-known in the...