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...pinch would be felt by all classes, the Premier insisted, but the opposition Socialists rose with angry shouts when Eyskens proposed a legislative catchall called the Lot Unique (single law). Labeling it the Loi Cynique, they insisted its tax provisions (e.g., a 20% boost in sales tax as well as income tax increases) would hit workers hardest, argued that its cuts in health and unemployment programs (which, some Socialists admit privately, are outrageously featherbedded) were "a step 25 years back into the past." "Not True, Not True." When the bill came up for debate on the floor of Parliament just...
...Crown Council - which meets only at the most critical moments in the nation's history - be convened to discuss Premier Eyskens' proposal? Eyskens himself opposed the idea, insisting he always was ready to discuss amend ments to the bill in the proper place -Parliament. Withdrawal of his Loi Unique would amount to an admission of defeat and political suicide for the present government. The young man in the royal palace, however, has his own future to consider...
...white heat of irony and violence, and for it Jules Dassin (Rififi, Never on Sunday), who both wrote and directed the film, deserves full credit. Unfortunately, Moviemaker Dassin must also bear most of the blame for the rest, which is mildly but consistently awful. Adapted crudely from La Loi, Roger Vailland's fine Prix Goncourt novel of 1957, Hot Wind is laden with too many big European names (Gina Lollobrigida, Marcello Mastroianni, Pierre Brasseur, Paolo Stoppa, in addition to Montand and Mercouri). When not glumly stumbling over each other or aggressively hogging the camera, the actors all seem loyally...
Since the Congo was still operating under the unratified "loi fondamentale" be queathed by the Belgians, the constitutional legalities involved in all this were unclear, but Lumumba left no one in doubt as to who held the initiative. Next day, as Kasavubu and his new Premier-designate Ileo sat timidly in the President's home, Lumumba's police fell upon a crowd of Kasavubu followers and opened fire, killing two. wounding twelve, and hauling scores away to jail...
...Assimilation. The Loi-cadre was in itself a revolutionary move in French colonial thinking. It meant the end of the concept of a French republic "one and indivisible" and of the tradition of cultural "assimilation." But for all France's concessions, and for all the money it belatedly spent on schools (there are still only 250 in Guinea), on building the port of Conakry, on roads and on the battles against such scourges as malaria, sleeping sickness and leprosy, Toure made no secret of the fact that he regarded the Loi-cadre as only "a first step...