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Last week, in the sleepy port city of Cochin (pop. 35,076) on India's Malabar coast, glittering strips of tinsel and Stars of David were strung over a narrow two-mile street known locally as "Jew Town." Nearly 200 religious scholars, archaeologists and historians from Asia, Europe and the U.S. were in town, along with a delegation of Indian leaders led by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The guests had gathered to commemorate the 1900th anniversary of one of the smallest (100 people) but most resilient communities in the Dias pora: the Jews of Cochin...
...Vietnamese legal experts are also at work revising outmoded civil and criminal codes. Particularly confusing is a dual legal system inherited from the French. One group of laws was created for the central part of the country, which was administered by the Viet emperor; other laws were written for Cochin China in the south, which was an outright colony controlled by the French governor. The differing legal standards are still applied today. Fornication, for example, was made a crime in central Viet Nam, reflecting strict Confucian traditions. No such statutes are in effect in the sophisticated south, where most...
...wrote a bitter, anti-French comedy called Le Dragon de Bambou. In 1918 he rented a suit and trotted out to Versailles to badger Woodrow Wilson for the "liberation" of "Viet Nam"-the ancient name for the region that all Frenchmen divided into partes tres: Tonkin China, Annam and Cochin China. His pleas were lost in the shuffle of more immediate history, and he never got to see Wilson. But the farsighted Bolsheviks in Moscow saw promise in the skinny, ardent Annamite...
...concerts and got a reception on the enthusiastic side of mixed. May Day weekend was at hand, and half of Paris gaily climbed into cars and headed out of the city for three days in the country. Meanwhile, at about the same time, a patient at the Cochin Hospital happily climbed into his car and headed for home. Half of Paris, no longer gay, sat and steamed until he got there. Charles de Gaulle, 73, recovered from his operation, was returning from the Left Bank hospital to the Right Bank Elysee Palace, and the police had thoughtfully blocked...
After posting three bulletins on the gates of Paris' Cochin Hospital, the doctors decided that the patient was recovering so well from his prostate operation that no further progress reports were needed. Charles de Gaulle's surgeon called him "un homme formidable...