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...strike was not due totally, as some American news magazines have implied, to de Gaulle's belligerence. Coal as a source of energy is on its way out in France, as it is in the United States. While many Frenchmen were stirred by the discipline and courage the miners showed--especially during the last two weeks of the strike, when there was very little for them to eat--there is nevertheless widespread understanding that coal must give way to gas as a source of energy if the French economy is to continue to expand. De Gaulle may say this...
...talks too much. With the kidnaping of ex-Colonel Antoine Argoud in Munich five weeks ago, and the virtual removal from active operations of Jacques Soustelle, the S.A.O.'s political boss, France's government claims that the movement that once struck terror in the hearts of Frenchmen has just about fallen apart. Hounded by the 61,000-man police force of Interior Minister Roger Frey, the S.A.O. is no longer able to maintain commando units in each of France's nine military districts, as it once did. Today, top officials claim, there are probably no more than...
Former Premier Michel Debre is such a listless political personality that a current joke says he was once seen riding in an empty limousine. He has a fussy manner and a flat, whining voice that somehow rub politicians and many other Frenchmen the wrong way, obscuring his considerable administrative talents. In Charles de Gaulle's electoral landslide last November, Debre-the dedicated Gaullist. major architect of the Fifth Republic's constitution, and the man who served a longer uninterrupted period as Premier (1,193 days) than any other in French parliamentary history-was ignominiously defeated...
Once again, gunmen were at work in the streets of Paris, and Frenchmen huddled anxiously to speculate on the next moves of that ugly remnant of Algerian hatred, the Secret Army Organization. Each day's headlines brought some new reason for fear...
...security rather than good looks. Women are particularly fond of men from the Benelux countries, and are especially leary of bakers, butchers and innkeepers, afraid that they will ask them to help out with the business. And how about love? "Love," sniffs one German, "is for teen-agers-and Frenchmen...