Word: michell
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...brave talk. But the real test of France's influence is that its neighbors are vehemently opposed to the force de dissuasion and resent French attempts to weaken the Atlantic Alliance. Be fore the Council of Europe in Strasbourg last week, Michel Habib-Deloncle, De Gaulle's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, urged support for an independent European deterrent, based on France's nuclear force, and even invited British participation. Said he: "If Great Britain conceives its future to be in the European Community, she can find in this field the occasion for a positive contribution...
Moral Lepers. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser put his finger on two culprits: 1) Michel Aflak, the fraii; intellectual Christian Arab who founded the Baath Socialist Party; and 2) Salah Bitar, Aflak's disciple and the present Baathist Premier of Syria. Denouncing the two as fascists, secessionists, traitors, moral lepers and "seekers after power," Nasser blasted them as solely responsible for the collapse of the unity agreement concluded last April between Egypt, Syria and Iraq. The agreement called for a merger of the three nations into a greater United Arab Republic, but in the months since...
...Metro stairs, snuggled flank-to-flank on the swimming barges moored along the Seine. To the Gaullists in the National Assembly there was only one thing wrong with this surfeit of love: it is not producing enough babies. Introducing new legislation designed to change that situation, ex-Premier Michel Debre warned: "There is a direct and immediate link between the weight of our population and our future in Europe and the world...
MOBILE by Michel Bufor. 319 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...with many another traveler before him, being a tourist brought out the worst in Michel Butor. A gifted disciple of French antinovelist Alain Robbe-Grillet (TIME, July 20, 1962), Butor is notable because he uses a different technique with every book and turns out intense and interesting fiction just the same. But in recounting his recent six-month tour of the U.S.-and in switching from novels to what might loosely be called nonfiction-Butor has produced a whopping-bad nonbook. It presents America in a nightmarish jumble of road signs, city names, ornithological notes and grim historical oddments...