Word: behr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bizerte last week, as French and Tunisian troops observed an uneasy ceasefire, they were burying the dead. On the scene, TIME Correspondent Edward Behr reported...
...past three years, the second home of TIME Paris correspondent Edward Behr has been Algeria, which he has visited 45 times while logging a total of 14 months on the spot covering the Algerian war. He has patrolled with French paratroopers in the rugged Kabylia mountains, has crossed and recrossed the Sahara by Jeep, truck and light plane, turning up at times in spots so remote that they had never been seen before by anyone but nomads and the French camel corps. An Englishman who grew up in Paris speaking accentless French (he was a major in the British army...
...Algeria, crossing desert tracks so rough that their station wagon had 29 punctures; they also hippety-hopped over the countryside in a rented plane. The result of their travels is the eight pages of Boulat's color pictures of Algeria in this week's TIME. When Behr had finished filing a story to accompany the pictures of this harshly beautiful land, he had to rush back to Algeria. The rebellious army generals had made it front page news again...
Together with Correspondent Edward Behr-who arrived in Algiers on the eve of the insurrection after a month-long motor expedition across the Sahara-White supplied this week's Foreign News section with its muscular narrative of Algiers at the barricades and its vivid portraits of the ex-law student, tough café owner and religious fanatic who have defied the power of Charles de Gaulle. Taken together with the intimate account of the heart searchings of De Gaulle's government supplied by Paris Correspondents Curtis Prendergast and Godfrey Blunden, the result is a comprehensive assessment...