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Relations with France are surprisingly close: 20,000 French technicians, their salaries paid by Paris, work in Algeria, and young Algerian government employees are being trained in France. Most Frenchmen, including De Gaulle, "have a conscience about Algeria," and Paris has granted upwards of $400 million in aid. The U.S. last year supplied 300,000 tons of wheat, which fed 4,600,000 undernourished Algerians, and U.S. aid during the next fiscal year will come to about $40 million. The Communist bloc has so far offered only $12 million, mostly in loans, but last week a top-level Soviet economic...
...achieve a national average of at least three children per family, Debre last week proposed 1) priority in apartments for young couples with children, 2) tax exemptions to families in the year they produce a fourth child, 3) a more "receptive government attitude toward unwed mothers." He also wants Frenchmen to lay off the bottle, because "each generation we lose a total of 500,000 persons due to overindulgence...
...literally: Stupidville) in Normandy, he makes a fetish of independence-testily ignoring fans, truculently snubbing opponents, even going so far as to wear his watch on his right wrist, simply because most people wear theirs on the left. Critics complain that Anquetil "does not like to suffer" (a quality Frenchmen demand in heroes) and that he races "like an accountant" (always conserving his strength, never taking risks). "Jacques," his coach once argued, "you are strong enough to win in the mountains, to win at the sprint. If you would just go all out a few times, people would recognize...
...Frenchmen, the 22-day Tour is not just a race; it is an obsession. It attracts upwards of 15 million spectators, boosts daily newspaper sales by 10%, virtually ensures a 40% boost in business for cafes and shops lucky enough to be located along the route. And it is as punishing as it is popular. This year's 2,570-mile Tour started northward from Paris into Belgium, doubled back through Anjou and Aquitaine to the Pyrenees, swung straight across the south of France, then cut back across the Alps to Paris. On the flat, racers had to average...
...measures him mainly from a practical point of view -as a peasant trader who was out of his league and should have known it. Yet the verdict on Laval must ultimately be moral. Again and again, to preserve its identity as a government of France, Vichy had to order Frenchmen to imprison and deport other Frenchmen in order to keep the Germans from moving in and imposing even harsher demands. Does the hope of saving five men justify the death of one? Did France have a right to salvage what it could from the 1940 debacle at the expense...