Word: frenchmens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Frenchmen the words "an Algerian election" have long served as satirical shorthand to describe a rigged vote, and Charles de Gaulle's first four elections in Algeria did little to change the time-honored meaning of the phrase. But for his fifth Algerian election, completed last week, De Gaulle's orders were strict: the French army was to put no pressure on Moslem voters; civilians were to run the polls and, where possible, the transportation to them. Last week De Gaulle had one result he was after: the first honest political profile of revolt-torn Algeria...
...vote suggested that most Algerians want peace and some tie to France. But it did not bring these ends visibly nearer. In pre-election raids, F.L.N. terrorists killed 17, including three candidates, in Algeria, plus one policeman and four civilians in Paris. And among Frenchmen as well as Algerians impatience for peace was mounting. In Toulouse, the Catholic, pro-Communist and independent unions have joined forces to demand immediate negotiations with the F.L.N. France's big Socialist Party is agitating for a ceasefire, and last week the potent National Students Union announced that it planned to resume its links...
...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...
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...