World News 14-11-2003 who: President Jacques Chirac what: Came within seven yards of being killed by Concorde crash, says new book where: Paris when: July 2000 snippet: According to Supersonic Secrets, by broadcaster and journalist Rob Lewis, "the burning Air France Concorde passed within seven yards of an Air France Boeing 747 on which President Chirac was travelling and which had just landed," reports The Evening Standard`s website, thisislondon.com. And in other news of a not-so-topical nature, the diaries of a Jesuit priest - a friend of the Kennedy family - reveal that Jacqueline Kennedy was close to suicide after the assasination of her husband in 1963. [... more]

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