Word: algerias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps De Gaulle was recalling the days when his generals mutinied against the Republic in Algeria (1961) and succeeded in getting junior officers to carry out their orders. To prevent such actions in the future, General Fernand Gambiez and others have spent three years rewriting the French military code. In one of the new provisions, a soldier may refuse to punish prisoners and civilians by "cruel treatment, torture and threats." Indeed, he may be court-martialed for obeying illegal orders...
Only a decade ago at Bandung, 29 nonaligned leaders gathered for ten days to prescribe a cure for the cold war's ills. Since then, many of the non-aligned world's leaders have fallen: India's Nehru is dead; Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Algeria's Ahmed ben Bella and Indonesia's Sukarno have dropped from supreme power. Indeed, nonalignment itself badly needs redefinition: the former nonaligneds have hardly anyone left to nonalign with...
...Swim. Mao's orders have made the Chinese diplomats more standoffish than ever. When the Cultural Revolution was announced, China's new ambassador to Algeria, Tseng Tao, had just begun to relish swimming at Algiers' spacious El-Kettani Club, a meeting place for the country's elite. Now he is seldom seen outside his for bidding embassy. Actually, Peking's emissaries are so isolated that they have little to do. But there was a flurry of activity in the Moscow embassy last week. In the latest round in the Sino-Soviet controversy, the Kremlin announced...
...needn't have. The 1960 bestseller (The Centurions) by Jean Larteguy described with a certain politico-military sophistication how French colonels, beaten in Indo-China, applied terrorist tactics to the struggle for Algeria. From this epic theme, Director Mark Robson has derived one of those big bad action pictures in which the explosions look frighteningly real but unfortunately don't kill off the actors fast enough...
...Flynn of the flick is a dashing colonel of les paras (Anthony Quinn) who. is presented as a square-jawed Horatio Algeria. He organizes his regiment to fight a brush-fire war, and with the hesitant assistance of an aide de camp (Alain Delon) who falls in love with a rebel belle (Claudia Cardinale), he conducts a brilliant but brutal campaign in the interior. In the end he wins a general's stars but loses his self-respect...