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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-05 12:32 PM
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another one found dead (swimming pool)


http://www.money.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2005/08/01/cnduis01.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2005/08/01/ixfrontcity.html


Former ECB head Duisenberg found dead in swimming pool


Wim Duisenberg, the first president of the European Central Bank, was found lifeless in a swimming pool yesterday at his country house near Avignon, in the South of France. Rescuers were unable to revive him. French police said it was too early to know the cause of death.

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Mr Duisenberg should have received an eight-year term but agreed to step down half way under a gentleman's agreement - brokered by Tony Blair - to make way for a "Frenchman". President Jacques Chirac had otherwise threatened to block the appointment, an early warning sign that the euro would also be a highly political undertaking.

In the end, France's Jean-Claude Trichet was under investigation for his role in the Crédit Lyonnais affair when the day came, so Mr Duisenberg went into extra time to keep the seat warm.

His tenure at the ECB was clouded by the militant anti-Israeli views of his wife Gretta. She caused outrage by describing Israel's occupation of the West Bank as worse than Nazi rule in Holland, the ultimate taboo in a country where 100,000 Jews were killed during the Holocaust.
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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-05 12:51 PM
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1. Another one? I missed the first one, I guess. Got a link? n/t
Edited on Mon Aug-01-05 01:01 PM by Eloriel
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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-05 01:16 PM
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2. he fell out of a 9 story window - thread was on DU a couple of days

ago

for the others go to www.bushbodycount.com
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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-05 07:57 PM
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3. So, if I want it I have to figure out some appropriate
key words to try to search for it??? You don't have it bookmarked and can't share a link?

As for Bushbodycount.com, I've been disappointed with them in the past not being anywhere NEAR complete.
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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 01:45 PM
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4. if I had the link I would have posted it

nt
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