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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Algerian rebels last week answered Charles de Gaulle's proposal for cease-fire talks (TIME, Nov. 23) with a yes that was meant to be taken...
...another issue in the U.N. last week, the vote went badly for France. Led by the same Afro-Asian bloc that supports the Algerian rebels, the U.N. General Assembly-which has never condemned any previous nuclear tests-by a vote of 51 to 16 called upon France to abandon plans for exploding its first A-bomb in the Sahara some time next year. The U.S.. and Britain sided with France...
Since the days of the French Revolution, when fanatics proclaimed that they had dethroned God and placed Reason on the ramparts of heaven, Frenchmen have struggled over the deathbeds of famous men. Stories, some apocryphal and some authenticated, tell of the last moments of such famed skeptics as Aristide Briand, Paul Valéry, Voltaire and André Gide. Last week the battle was once more joined over the final hours on earth of Edouard Herriot, who had done as much as anyone to insist on the separation of church and state, and had fought tirelessly against church control...
...Last week the dispute came to open warfare. The first barrage was laid down by Biologist Jean Rostand, 65, who reputedly knows more about frogs than any man alive, and who had been elected to Herriot's vacant seat in the Académie Française. Wearing the academy's braided uniform and cocked hat and with a sword dangling awkwardly at his side, Rostand, as custom requires, used his acceptance speech to eulogize the academician whose place he took. Herriot's last moments, according "to certain witnesses," said Rostand, were not "in harmony with...
MOROCCO The Malady of Meknes Cripples, many of them children, stretched helpless legs last week in the bazaars of Meknes (pop. 200,000). In the city's 4O0-bed hospital, some 650 more Moroccans, with symptoms ranging from muscular atrophy of hands and feet to complete paralysis, lay crammed together in crowded quarters. In the Meknes slums, whole families hobbled about on canes. "There are 10,000 people paralyzed," cried Morocco's Health Minister Youssef...