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...Congo debacle, and attacked Eyskens' sensible but unpopular economic austerity program-price of the lost Congo- because it meant higher taxes and reduced pensions. Belgium's voters were ready to criticize politicians of every stripe, in a sullen style reminiscent of the ugly, empty mood of Frenchmen in the last stages of the Fourth Republic...
...crime that had everything. The cast of characters, including beautiful, amoral women and recklessly brutal men, seemed right out of the nouvelle vague French films. One of the nation's greatest fortunes was involved. Best of all, the crime itself was inspired by what Frenchmen believe to be the fountainhead of criminal violence...
...Marines aboard the sinking Bon Homme Richard did indeed capture the British Serapis in a bloody, muzzle-to-muzzle fight. But all of the 137 enlisted men were Frenchmen, in alien uniforms, vagrants recruited by John Paul Jones on the docks of L'Orient...
There are two kinds of Frenchmen in Algeria, and no two men were ever more ironically type-cast than Pierre Lagaillarde and Pierre Popie. Both from well-to-do families, they grew up as next-door neighbors amid the rose gardens and orange groves of Blida, a small town nestled at the foot of the Atlas Mountains. 32 miles from Algiers...
...Frenchmen learned last week just how close their army had come to open mutiny during the European insurrection in Algiers last January...