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says Health Dept checked schools and found conditions normal
Lucherberg capture described and importance to Allied positions noted
martial law imposed; Athens; Papandreou Govt ultimatum warns EAM armed unit, ELAS, to quit Athens area by midnight Dec 6; EAM asserts willingness to disarm ELAS is conditioned by simultaneous disarmament of right-wing and Papandreou regime mil units; Royalist and ELAS troops battle, Thesseum dist; Brit communique repts ELAS attack on Anglo-Greek naval hdqrs; Brit troops disarm 800 ELAS troops marching on Athens; EAM strike cuts utilities; ELAS seize 2 police barracks, Piraeus port; Brit troops patrol Athens; Scobie reiterates stand backing govt; pub parades before Brit and US Embassies asking for free determination and lauding Roosevelt; Papandreou charges EAM foments civil war; EAM sec gen, D Pasalides, asserts fight for liberty against present regime will continue; refuses to surrender arms by Dec 10 as ordered; pub funeral for civilians killed during Const Sq demonstration; pub calls for Papandreou fall
US 3d Army troops fight in Saarlautern east of river; AP repts Wallerfangen taken; other units clear Theding, Diebling and Bettring; small groups reptd 4 1/2 mi from Sarreguimines; Ger resistance weakening around Sarre Union; Amers reach Keskastel area and Voellerdinger; US 7th Army forces fight way slowly around Haguenau and Haguenau forest toward Karlsruhe corner; enter Diemeringen; fight around Wingen; take Rothbach and Zinswiller and enter Gumbrechtshoffen; sniping stops around Strasbourg as fighting continues fierce south of city and in Selestat area; St Hippolyte taken; French reach Schlucht Pass northern end and gain in Bussang Pass area; meet stiff resistance in Harth Forest; French squadrons of US 1st Tactical Air Force hit Mulhouse-Strausbourg area; fighting on Juelich athletic grounds continues; 1st Army reaches high ground west of Dueren; reptd elimination of 6 Ger divs in offensive called overoptimistic; Ger divs thought relieved; 1st Army thrusts from Inden and Wenau Forest noted; Brit clear all Ger units from Meuse west bank; Gers reptd to have broken dikes to flood Arnhem area; Allied planes support ground action on most sectors; maps
1944Jeroen KrabbĂ©, Dutch actor, director, and producer[â ]
Jeroen Aart Krabbé is a Dutch actor, film director and painter with a successful career in both Dutch- and English-language films. He is best known to international audiences for his leading roles in the Paul Verhoeven films Soldier of Orange (1977) and The Fourth Man (1983), for playing the villain General Georgi Koskov in the James Bond film The Living Daylights (1987) and his parts in The Prince of Tides (1991), The Fugitive (1993), and Immortal Beloved (1994). His 1998 directorial debut, Left Luggage, was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival.