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Last night Professor Aron (he is professor of Sociology at the Sorbonne) was discoursing on a subject that he has been asked to talk a great deal about since his arrival in this country. What are the prospects for a solution of the Algerian dilemma? And what is the future for France...
Aron affirmed that President de Gaulle's November 4 declaration calling for the establishment of an Algerian republic has brought France to the denouement of its six-year-old drama of futility and grief in North Africa. "This is the last chance for de Gaulle," Aron asserted. "It is the final crisis for the Fifth Republic." Aron estimated that if de Gaulle is to continue in power, the Algerian solution must be effected early next year. He emphasized, however, that no specific deadline could be set for the settlement...
...Gaulle has practically accepted the idea of an evolution to Algerian independence," Aron continued. Given this acceptance, "he will now make the maximum effort to bring...
Aron asserted that the army will remain loyal to de Gaulle so long as he guarantees that they will not be removed from Algeria; providing he does not negotiate officially with the rebel Algerian National Liberation Front, and does not recruit officials for the new Algerian government from members of the rebel group...
...thallium, a paralyzing ingredient in certain rat poisons. Hurried to a hospital and placed in an iron lung, he came out of a coma long enough to murmur "Red Hand," the name of a counterterrorist organization which operates in West Germany and Belgium against suspected arms suppliers to Algerian French Africa. He also muttered something about having been served two glasses of Pernod. The first tasted "all right," the second was "bitter." Last week he died, and blood tests showed that his diagnosis was right: it was thallium poisoning...