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Last week Premier Michel Debré rose in the French Assembly and proclaimed that the time had come to crack down on the home distillers. He had found it impossible to police more than 2,100,000 Frenchmen holding home-distilling permits; in some departments, there is a home still for every other adult male, with a gallon and a half of illegal booze produced for every gallon distilled under legal limitations. Furthermore, the ocean of homemade booze was killing too many Frenchmen, he argued. "In the past 14 years,'' said Debré, "total deaths from alcoholism have...
...would be free to move about, whether he could be sure of treating with President de Gaulle personally, whether F.L.N. negotiators could confer with Ben Bella, the F.L.N. leader whom the French kidnaped four years ago on a flight between Morocco and Tunisia. Moris relayed each question to Premier Michel Debre, who in turn relayed it to De Gaulle. The answers: De Gaulle would certainly not see Ferhat Abbas until a cease-fire had been signed. No contact with Ben Bella would be permitted. As for Ferhat Abbas' freedom of movement, it would be the same as that enjoyed...
...will not agree to a cease-fire unless De Gaulle makes good on his implicit promise to give the F.L.N. an opportunity to participate in the political referendum that will determine Algeria's future. But only hours after the rebels accepted De Gaulle's negotiation offer, Premier Michel Debré himself put out the word that French negotiators would refuse to talk politics until after the F.L.N. agreed to lay down arms. Other government officials repeatedly assured reporters that nothing would come of the talks...
Intent on making lively the arrival of France's Premier Michel Debré in Algeria, six men sat around a table in an Algerian village tinkering with the timing device of a bomb. The bomb exploded and the six were blown to bits...
...DISINHERITED (274 pp.)-Michel del Castillo-Knopf...