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France's former Premier Michel Debré last week rushed from humiliating obscurity back to the very center of French political life. Eased out of office by President Charles de Gaulle in 1962 and replaced by Georges Pompidou, Debré had seemed permanently relegated to the shadows last November when he ran as a candidate for the National Assembly in a supposedly safe constituency and, despite a Gaullist landslide, was soundly beaten by a local garage owner. But Debré was determined to try again, even though he had to travel 6,000 miles to French-owned...
...crisis in Syria between the majority belonging to the Baath Socialist Party and the minority of strongly Nasserite ministers. The struggle had been brewing for two months, and pro-Nasser ministers frankly told newsmen that they intended to overthrow the Baathists. The Baath counterstrategy, as enunciated by its founder, Michel Aflak, was: "Do everything to preserve unity, but don't give an inch, and don't surrender any power...
Lafayette focuses on the 19-year-old Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, who makes things unpleasant for the British from Brandywine to Yorktown. Michel Le Royer plays the teen-age major general as a cross between Nelson Eddy and Prince Valiant; he wears a blond pageboy bob and glow-in-the-dark dentures, while everyone else has a blue-rinsed peruke. The sets are reminiscent of Agincourt: Washington's headquarters is a cluster of pretty round tents with scalloped tops and silk banners snapping in the breeze. For Lafayette's triumphal farewell...
...Gaulle's security does not seem to be the only reason for the massive police forces in Paris. If security precautions for the President explain the busloads of policemen at the Elysee palace, they do not explain the police opposite the University of Paris, at Place Saint Michel in the Latin Quarter, or opposite the American Express office. At these points, and in numerous other areas of Paris, the police are for control, not security...
Nasser agreed completely. "We refuse, if anybody asks us,'' he said, "to form a nominal union for outward appearances.'' Later, he fervently told a Syrian delegation headed by Baath Party Leaders Michel Aflak and Salah El-Bitar: "We believe the tide of revolutionary union in this generation is a historic opportunity which will not repeat itself." He also suggested that the Baathists broaden their new Syrian government to bring in popular-that is, Nasserite-elements...