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...associate professor of Government said last night that President Charles de Gaulle's way of "governing in the grand feudal manner" hasn't done much to compensate for the disintegration of French political institution caused by the Algerian...
Among the pre-teen set, the back seat of the family car enjoys all the erotic mystery of an Algerian brothel; in more adult circles, however, I had always assumed that it would take more than a necking scene in a Model A to titillate or provoke. Elia Kazan and William Inge seem to disagree with...
...insist, in every article about Katanga, on talking about "mercenaries" and "white-officered troops." And what do you mean by "white"? South Africans, Rhodesians, Congo Belgians, Algerian French born and bred in Africa, probably for two, three or more generations, who have lived and worked their whole life in Africa, are Africans. A white Katangan of Belgian extraction can have the genuine patriotism for Katanga that an American Negro or American of Polish extraction can have for America...
Once again the delegates had come to the U.N. with a dizzying assortment of problems and causes, ranging from nuclear tests and Red China's demand for recognition, to apartheid, Algerian freedom, South Tyrol terrorism and the future of Ruanda-Urundi. Everyone was only too eager to dump all the issues on the U.N.'s desks, whether there was any real prospect of solution or not. But all the possible agenda items seemed to fade beside the loss of Dag Hammarskjold. Every delegate knew that the whole future of the U.N. as a meaningful force for peace...
...hours before leaving for his first whistle-stop tour since a terrorist's bomb came within a damp fuse of killing him, De Gaulle issued a brief communiqué. As of Oct. 1, he announced, he would relinquish the extraordinary powers he had assumed* to quell the Algerian army revolt in April...