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Died. Henri Borgeaud, 68, one of the wealthiest and most influential Europeans in Algeria, an unswerving champion of "Algérie Française who was a French Senator for Algiers from 1946 to 1959, upholding the conservative colonial cause so vehemently that Moslem terrorists machine-gunned his car in Paris in 1957 (he escaped uninjured) and Ben Bella last year saw fit to confiscate all his lands and industrial holdings, valued at close to $100 million; in Paris...
...showpiece of the new system is the 4,500-acre estate (wine, vegetables, citrus fruit) formerly owned by Henri Borgeaud, once the richest man in Algeria. After he fled to France last year, his 1,800 peasants and their families burned down the bidonville (shantytown) where they had huddled in squalor for generations, and moved into their former master's dwellings. The wine presses and bottling machinery are in good order and ready to process the bumper grape harvest expected this month, although ex-Owner Borgeaud took the formula for his red wine with him to France...
...swing of 10 or 20 votes. Biggest is the alcohol lobby, which keeps French winegrowers, beet farmers and distillers producing twice the alcohol the French can drink and forces the government to buy the surplus at four times the world price. The North African lobby, run by Senator Henri Borgeaud, took alarm when Mendès tried to reduce the colons' control of the local police. As a result, Algeria's Rene Mayer and 19 other Radical Socialists deserted their own Premier and brought his downfall...
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