Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suspects were hauled before a secret "People's Court" three weeks ago. For Diallo, as well as the Moslem imam of Conakry's Coronthie district (who had called Touré's regime "irreligious") and 17 others, the sentence was death: the others, including three Frenchmen and a Swiss youth, drew long jail terms. Last week, the government disclosed that one of the Frenchmen had already died. "Heart attack," said the brief announcement...
...Captives. The 1,000-odd Frenchmen who are still living in Guinea are harassed at every turn. Some have been jailed for failing to stand up in theaters when Guinea's national anthem was played; one drew three months ("willful deterioration of Guinea's national heritage") for practicing with a revolver against the trunk of a mango tree. Airline officials have laid on 25 extra flights in the next few weeks to take care of Frenchmen and their families headed for home...
...administrative strike" designed to wreck the bureaucratic machinery with implausible diagnoses and impossible claims. So far at least, the patients, who will now have to wait longer for their money while the red tape is unsnarled, have made surprisingly little protest against the doctors' sabotage-like all good Frenchmen, they admire anyone who manages to defy the bureaucracy...
Included were the work of 19 Italians and five Frenchmen, all on their very best behavior. Rodin is represented by a terra cotta study of his Thinker, Rouault by a somber Autumn. About the liveliest item in the show is a couple of playful cats done by Sculptor Pericle Fazzini. As usual, Giorgio de Chirico was unhappy about the choice of his work-an uninspired Still Life with Fruit and Milan Cathedral Seen from Rooftops. Said he: "Of course all my works are good, but these are of lesser importance...
...change in the status of Berlin raises the problem of the reunification of Germany. Admit it or not, many Frenchmen and Englishmen feel that West Germany is big and powerful enough as it is. Instead of pushing for reunification, they would prefer to concentrate on completing West Germany's integration into Western Europe. Even some Germans are not eager to jeopardize their prosperity by taking on the poor farm that is East Germany. But the U.S. remains convinced that so long as Germany is divided, it will be a flash point for war. And, as a matter of conscience...