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- THE WEEK, Page 21WORLDFrance's Tragic Turn
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- France's worst storm ever recorded continued a string of
- worldwide storm disasters this month. Flash floods drowned crops
- and damaged buildings and roads, leaving at least 38 people
- dead. An additional 80 were injured or missing, and thousands
- were evacuated from the popular Southeastern region of Vaucluse,
- where most of the death and destruction occurred. "It's an
- indescribable tragedy," said Mayor Claude Haut of
- Vaison-la-Romaine, an ancient Roman town of 5,000 people 25
- miles north of the city of Avignon, where 23 died.
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