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...members say it is shut out of parliament by being starved of exposure. "In 15 years as head of the party I've had eight minutes on national television," says Chebbi. Government officials dismiss him as little more than a handy antigovernment source for the foreign press. Béchir Tékari, Minister of Justice and Human Rights, complains: "Some people are content to take information from a certain minority of activists...
...magazine was founded in 1960 by Béchir ben Yahmed, 38, a Tunisian who decided he could exert more influence as a journalist than as a politician. An intimate of Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, he quit his job as Minister of Information because he felt that his boss had assumed too much power. The danger of one-man rule is, in fact, one of Jeune Afrique's most persistent themes. "We believe that the funda mental role of the press is to prevent leaders from taking advantage of the people," says Ben Yahmed. "Africa's rulers have...
...lower case, must vanish from the language. Doctor becomes dctr, books are bks, clockshop, clckshp; saying cockadoodledoo aloud would be tantamount to fomenting rebellion. The docile natives of Ooroo, now renamed "R," try hard to talk the new gibberish. A by tells a girl she sings like a chir of riles, and gets slapped. Lads studying Igic at schl recite: "Mist is always mist, but what is mist isn't always mist.'' Peple can n Inger tell rot from root. Babies make as much sense as their fathers...
...chir (we'll think about it)," replied De Gaulle. He then added a sentence to his Compiégne speech (TIME, March 15) which startled French politicians. De Gaulle, who has never had a kind word for the Schuman government, said: ". . . What has to be done is too much for the potentialities of the present regime, however great the value and good will, which are undeniable, of some...
...much for the health of Dr. Henry Simpson Lunn. He returned to his native Lincolnshire, life having apparently robbed him of the purpose toward which his 30 years of youth had devoutly and painstakingly moved. These years of preparation had culminated in the degrees of M. A., B. Chir., M. D. and in marriage to the daughter of a canon. What to do at 30? It was the year...
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