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...Star. The area of deepest ignorance and most hopeful new reports covered the problem of protecting the implanted heart against rejection. Here the star turned out to be not a surgeon but a drug, forbiddingly named antilymphocyte globulin, or ALG...
Died. Henri Borgeaud, 68, one of the wealthiest and most influential Europeans in Algeria, an unswerving champion of "Algérie Française who was a French Senator for Algiers from 1946 to 1959, upholding the conservative colonial cause so vehemently that Moslem terrorists machine-gunned his car in Paris in 1957 (he escaped uninjured) and Ben Bella last year saw fit to confiscate all his lands and industrial holdings, valued at close to $100 million; in Paris...
Twenty gun-toting cops burst into the offices of La Dépêche d'Algérie, Algiers' leading French-language newspaper, ordered the 200 employees out within ten minutes. Simultaneously, out in the provinces police swooped on L'Echo d'Oran and La Dépêche de Constantine. Thus last week, only days after formalizing his one-man, one-party rule (TIME, Sept. 20), Algerian Strongman Ahmed ben Bella seized his country's last three remaining French-owned newspapers. To Ben Bella they were dangerous relics of colonialism and tantalizing...
...referendum, which is creating an independent Algeria "associated" with France. The fervent speeches were generally unheard in the shouting, music and indiscriminate firing in air-the traditional means of expressing high spirits in North Africa. Roads were blocked by cars whose horns blared out the six-count beat of "Algérie algérienne," instead of the hated five-count "Algerie française" of the European Secret Army...
...S.A.O. turnabout stems partly from the fact that the terrorists now hate De Gaulle even more than they hate the Moslems. But it is also a tacit admission that Algérie Française is dead, and that the S.A.O. terror campaign, which slew an average of 1,000 Moslems a month, failed of its major purpose-to incite a racial bloodbath in Algeria that would force the French army to defy De Gaulle and come in on the side of the Europeans...