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...home. My clothes are spread all over the world." says Cousteau cheerfully. Nearest thing to home is the bare cabin of the Calypso, where they may spend months at a time. Simone has become an expert Aqua-Lunger, tags along when Cousteau goes diving with their two sons, Jean-Michel, 21, and Philippe, 19. Cousteau declares that neither of them has ever gone swimming without mask and fins. ''They consider it infirme, and I think they are right...
From the speaker's tribune in Paris' cavernous Luxembourg Palace one morning last week, France's Premier Michel Debre, a short, subdued man in a dark suit, unhappily told the French Senate: "Last week we almost witnessed the collapse of the state." Then he formally requested near-dictatorial powers for his boss, Charles de Gaulle. Shaken by his subordinates' fumbling vacillation in the face of the Algiers uprising, De Gaulle had bitterly concluded that if France was to have effective government he must provide it personally...
...every reason for weariness and despair. News of the insurrection in Algiers first reached him on Sunday at his country home in Colombey-les-deux-Eglises. When his black Citroën reached the capital shortly before midnight, De Gaulle was greeted by the proffered resignation of Premier Michel Debré, long privately opposed to De Gaulle's offer of self-determination to Algeria. Imperiously, De Gaulle refused Debré's resignation and fired off orders to General Maurice Challe, French commander in chief in Algeria. The orders: finish off the settlers' uprising "during this night...
...Premier Michel Debre had promised that they would be used only for maintenance of order, safeguarding the republic and pacification and administration of Algeria. He promised that no basic civil liberties would be endangered...
...made a mistake." Within 24 hours after Kempski's interview hit France, Massu was on his way to Paris to explain. From Algiers, spokesmen for the diehard European settlers' organizations loudly warned De Gaulle not to make them choose between him and the popular Massu; even Premier Michel Debré wanted to accept Massu's ambiguous repudiation of the interview. But at that point De Gaulle blew up. Outraged by the implication that the army had supported him only "for lack of a better man"-the one remark Massu wholeheartedly insisted he did not make-De Gaulle...