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...Dirty Chinaman. The defendant's lawyer, Jacques Verges, the son of a French father and a Vietnamese mother, had his own problems. He was greeted with angry shouts of "Kill the dirty Chinaman!" When he protested an arbitrary ruling, the examining judge observed: "Doctors who care for rebels are arrested. It might be better to arrest lawyers who defend them." Verges was not allowed to make a final plea for his client. Djamila Bouhired, permitted a few words before sentence was passed, said: "The truth is that I love my country; I want to see it free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Tac-Tac-Tac | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...French and foreign-oil interests abroad." Ouamrane's chief of staff is bespectacled Belkacem Krim, 35, a ruthless, fearless former French army NCO who has been sentenced to death four times. Under him are Abdellah ben Tobbal, a 34-year-old ex-miller who is known as "The Chinaman"; Abdelhafid Boussouf, 31, a handsome former teacher who commands some 20,000 men along the Moroccan border; and Mahmoud Cherif, 43, who served brilliantly in the French army, won the Croix de guerre in Indo-China, still has a brother serving as a captain in the French army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Respectability for Rebels | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...time," he recalls. "Alongside the university there's some railroad spurs. I got the idea that running through the spurs in the snow I'd have to lift my legs, I'd have to get strength, I'd have to get stamina. Any Chinaman can see that." Result: a ten-flat 100 and a university record that managed to stand for five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VISITING JUDGE IN LITTLE ROCK: I'm Just One of a Couple of Hundred | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...Chinaman's chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VISITING JUDGE IN LITTLE ROCK: I'm Just One of a Couple of Hundred | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

WELCOME GREAT CHINAMAN PLEASE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: A Little Discourtesy | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

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