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TIME Correspondent Edward Behr. 36, served in the British army in India, worked as a reporter for Reuters in London and Paris, and as a member of our Paris staff has traveled through most of Europe. For four years he covered the Algerian war, and wrote a book about it last year...
...short, he has been to enough familiar and remote places to know better than to be beguiled by tourist brochures. But in the course of a 13-day tour through Communist Albania, on which he reports this week, Behr found the gap between fact and pictured fancy even wider than he expected. "Visiting Albania." he said, "is like putting the clock back and waking up in the Balkans of the 16th century, with telephone wires, modern weapons, and a little motor transport added...
...Behr woke up to the backwardness of Albania early in his stay. Setting out to replace a razor (he had lost his suitcase in Budapest), he discovered that the only kind available was locally made−and lethal. It worked only by taking off large slices of skin. Behr mentioned this casually to his Albanian guide, who replied simply: "There is always some trouble about our razor." The shopping trip had one advantage: Behr got one of his few chances to talk alone with a native Albanian, a pharmacist who had been to Paris years ago. and who plaintively asked...
Much of the Salan story's vivid reporting of the look and feel of Algeria during its ugly three-way war is the work of TIME Correspondent Edward Behr. 35, who was educated in Paris, London, and Cambridge, served in the British army in India, and worked for Reuters. For the past four years, he has covered Algeria and the rest of North Africa for TIME. This week W. W. Norton publishes Behr's The Algerian Problem ($4.50). The book recently appeared in England, where both the Manchester Guardian and the London Sunday Times praised...
Plastic Applause. By day. Algiers appears as peaceful as any city of France, reported TIME Correspondent Edward Behr. After sunset, the streets resound to the powerful explosion of plastic bombs. Some nights there may be only three or four; once last week there were 19. When European audiences in movie houses hear the muffled roar of a distant bomb, they break into applause. The victims of the explosions are Moslem shopkeepers. Frenchmen who are considered to be liberals or Gaullists. or policemen who appear to be searching too hard for European terrorists...