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...architecture of Cannes, but the atmosphere of Aberdeen." Horne's judgments are generous and fair, to winners and losers alike. Of the latter, undoubtedly the most pathetic were the thousands of harkis, Muslim soldiers who fought bravely, even desperately with the French armies. Unprotected by the 1962 Evian accords that ratified France's exit, they were disarmed by their comrades and turned over to the vengeful justice of the F.L.N. Some of the harkis were castrated and burned alive; others were forced to swallow their decorations and then buried in graves they had dug with their own hands...
...Evian" was painted in 1900, and its view of the waterfront could only have been from an elegant carriage on the sloping road above. The work shows an afternoon hazyhot, captured forever beneath a coat of varnish, fresh sea air sealed in with this sketch of an age one imagines in likewise indefinite terms. Binet was very fond of flowers and there are several rather innocuous but decorative paintings of poppies, roses or a flowering tree over a stream. And yet one begins to wonder about this artist while looking at "Saint Mandrier," a view of boats moored...
...smuggled across this border. However, the fence cost a fortune to guard and maintain, and there were problems of inevitable future insurrection and French public opinion. De Gaulle weighed these problems against the possibility of a decisive victory and decided to pull out. The settlement was elaborated in the Evian accords, signed in 1962. It mandated compensation for expropriated French lands and guaranteed that preferential treatment be given to French oil companies for a period of six years after independence...
...France itself, and at Algerian Moslems who refused to cooperate. In 1957 the F.L.N. murdered 300 residents of the Kabylia region whom they suspected of cooperating with a rival group. The French vowed never to talk with such murderers, but both sides eventually sat across a negotiating table at Evian-les-Bains...
Britain's decision to withdraw from the gulf was an unsettling blow to the Trucial States. One robed sheik explained why to TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott as they sat sipping Evian water in an Abu Dhabi hotel lobby. "We have a saying here that my next-door neighbor is my enemy, but the man from afar is my friend." So anxious was oil-rich Abu Dhabi to maintain a referee and peacekeeper in the area that it. quietly proposed to help cover British costs with a $60 million subsidy. When London demurred, the neighboring sheiks-who are all absolute...