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...July 15). Behind its formidable walls, the fortress city offers a program formidable, meeting the competitive challenge of the nearby Avignon festival with Goldoni and Aristophanes, Romeo and Juliet, Emmanuel Roblès' Montserrat, a presentation in the original Provençal of Frédéric Mistral's poem Calendau, and a production called A Meeting with Vincent Van Gogh in Aries, based on the painter's correspondence with his brother Theo...
Lazing alongside were three French air force "Mistral" jets. One waggled its wings as if to signal to the Ilyushin. The Russian pilot stolidly pursued his course, and for eight minutes the jets merely kept pace. Then, suddenly, one of them whooshed ahead, turned and opened fire in the Russian plane's path. "International banditry," howled Moscow's pro test to France. The Ilyushin had been 82 miles off the Algerian coast at the time of the incident, declared the Russians. It had cleared properly with Algiers control, cried Moscow: the attack had been entirely unprovoked...
...Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, who, as boss of his nation's armed forces, decided that the 1960 parade would not be complete without some jets flying in close formation overhead. To fulfill his dream, the prince got a promise from Morocco's former French masters of twelve Mistral jet fighters to form the nucleus of a new Royal Moroccan Air Force. Last week, on the eve of the "three glorious days," the French welshed, irritated with Morocco's increasingly active support of the Algerian rebels...
ALGERIA Successful Mission Shortly after 11 o'clock one morning last week, a gull-white Caravelle jet airliner accompanied by eight Mistral fighters in V formation came streaking in from the Mediterranean over the North African coast. A few minutes later at Maison-Blanche airport. Charles de Gaulle, clad in the undecorated suntan uniform of a brigadier general, stepped down onto the soil of Algeria-the first French Premier to show his face there since an Algiers mob greeted Socialist Guy Mollet with a shower of rotten tomatoes in February...
Died. Gabriela Mistral (real name: Lucila Godoy Alcayaga), 67, tall, straight-haired Chilean poet and schoolteacher who won adulation throughout Latin America for her Sonnets of Death (1914), written after the suicide of a lover, was awarded the permanent post of roving consul (her assignment: to live where she pleased) by the grateful Chilean government, in 1945 received the Nobel Prize for poetry; of cancer; in Hempstead...