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...Hakim Félix Ellellou, Kush's Muslim-Marxist President, such imports are ideological and theological blasphemies. Yet Ellellou himself has had his head turned by the West. At 17, he left his native village to join the French colo nial army. He served in Indochina before Dien Bien Phu and spent the middle '50s studying liberal arts in Wisconsin. Back home, married to a white college sweet heart, Ellelloū rose through the ranks under a French-puppet king and then emerged as the leader of the coup that put him in power...
...predominance of male leads a few years ago is somewhat surprising [see below]. At any rate, Annie Girardot plays Inspector Lise Tanquerelle with an undeniable charm and self-assurance. She is something of a superwoman, what with a successful career in a male-dominated world, a child (she is, bien sur, divorced), and a beautiful home in the suburbs. Not to mention the fact that she is inordinately attractive for a woman...
...atop a 1,000-ft. crag. Half a century later, another Foreign Legion battalion defeated 10,000 devil-worshiping Dahomey troops, including units of ferocious, bare-breasted women who shot, knifed, bayoneted and bit off the noses of the legionnaires. Even in France's humiliating defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the legionnaires electrified their adopted country by their heroism in the face of overwhelming enemy forces...
Algeria was the last colonial war, although, as Author Horne observes, the situation that created it has certain parallels to Rhodesia and South Africa. Embittered by its recent defeat at Dien Bien Phu, the French army was determined not to let it happen in Algeria, and twice the war was nearly won. In 1957 the feared paratroopers of General Jacques Massu, using torture on a scale that shocked and sickened Frenchmen, destroyed the F.L.N. underground network during the Battle of Algiers. Two years later, punishing French raids shattered the morale of starving, undersupplied F.L.N. units in rural strongholds...
...many peasants did the Viet Minh mobilize to help bring dismantled heavy artillery, piece-by-piece, over mountains for the final siege on the French at Dien Bien...