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Those who vote no, cried Charles de Gaulle, "refuse to have the problem of Algeria ever resolved by France. To abstain is to choose impotence for France." But to vote yes "is to want France to win in Algeria, for Algeria, with Algeria, in the cause of peace and reason." His earnest personal appeal last week went out over nationwide radio and TV: "Men of France, it is to me you are going to give your answer. I need-yes, I need-to know what is in your hearts and minds. In truth-who is not aware...
...Algeria, the voting was by zones and was spread over three days to guarantee maximum control. The rebel F.L.N. ordered Moslems to abstain, emphasized their point by shooting dead the Moslem director of a polling place. In a few villages, like Djemaa Saharij, Moslems refused to budge from their homes. At Gueltet, F.L.N. raiders shot up a crowd of Moslems waiting to vote and were driven off by French troops. The cost: eleven dead. In Mila, the French opened fire on a band of Moslems waving the green-and-white F.L.N. flag and killed four. Army trucks brought throngs...
...bridge and golf), Harry Truman (poker) or Franklin D. Roosevelt (for whom Allen was a top jester as well as a District of Columbia commissioner). Last week Golfer Kennedy, never keen on card games, made it clear that there will be no afternoon trips to Burning Tree: he will abstain from golfing unless he is on a declared vacation. The one hope left for Allen seemed to be touch football, which ranks with sailing and swimming among Kennedy's favorite sports. And not long ago a visitor to Allen's office spotted on a handy shelf a book...
When a king dies, the Buganda of Uganda raditionally slaughter all his wives-along with hundreds of ordinary tribesmen-to keep the old boy company. Poles abstain from sewing, for fear of pricking the soul of the departed. Many Jews, after the death of a close relative, abstain from sexual intercourse for seven days...
...Mongols abstain from marrying for three years. Moslems may call in a professional prayer artist, who prays into an airtight goatskin until he has blown it squeaky-full of airy prayer, which he sells at so much a squirt...