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Murray Takes Glencore From Rich Legacy With Foreign Legion Vigor
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During five years in the French Foreign Legion, Glencore International Plc Chairman Simon Murray was sent on missions ranging from death defying to merely gruesome.
Dispatched to rescue trapped comrades encircled by Algerian independence fighters in the Aures Mountains in 1961, Murray survived an ambush in which the Legionnaire beside him died in a hail of machine gun bullets, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its October issue.