Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 4, 1995                   TAG: 9510040052
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-11   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: RICHARD FOSTER
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. . . AND IN BEDFORD

Possibly the only people in Western Virginia who had no interest in the outcome of the Simpson trial Tuesday were 52 French tourists here to see the hometowns of soldiers who liberated their villages on D-Day.

Asked through an interpreter at lunch at the Bedford church if any of the group was keeping up with O.J. Simpson, tour member Marcel Leveel asked, "Who?"

After a brief description from the interpreter, Leveel replied, "Oh. We hear very little about him."