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...array of troubles before De Gaulle is indeed sobering. The country is basically prosperous, but its economy is restrictive. Politically, the new Assembly, calling itself Gaullist, is considerably more rightist in outlook than the general himself. Above all, the four-year-old Algerian Moslem revolt continues to drain France of $2,400,000 a day, and prospects for a negotiated end to the fighting, once considered high, were badly dashed last October, when the rebels angrily considered De Gaulle's soldier-to-soldier, "flag-of-truce" offer a humiliating proposal...
...France's Black African territories to the vote on his proposed constitution, he obliged right-wingers to swallow his liberal colonial policy, at the same time picked up 9,000,000 African votes to swell his majority in the constitutional referendum. By showing himself willing to offer Algeria's Moslem rebels something besides naked force, and by taking the gamble of extending the constitutional referendum to Algeria, he reconciled many left-wingers to his tighter, more disciplined constitution, added another 3,500,000 Algerian votes to his majority, and threw the rebel National Liberation Front onto the psychological defensive...
Cheering Bedouins. Landing at Constantine airport with Delouvrier unobtrusively at his side, De Gaulle stressed the civilian aspects of his Algerian visit. He gave General Salan only a perfunctory handshake, but hobnobbed enthusiastically with steel experts in Bone, oilmen in the Sahara, land-reclamation officers in the Moslem villages. At Touggourt, an oasis in the desert, De Gaulle told...
Iran remains a precarious outpost. The bloody July revolution in neighboring Iraq sent an apprehensive shudder through Iran's top thousand families and made them more receptive to the Shah's reforms. Though Iran is a Moslem nation, its people are not Arab, and the Shah is thus insulated from the Nasser virus. The Soviet Union, through pudgy Ambassador Nikolai Pegov, has lately purred friendship and slyly supported Iran's claim to Britain's oil-rich Bahrein Island. The Soviet Union sent its dancers and acrobats, sponsored joint Russian-Iranian projects such as locust control...
...Testament (Acts 11:26); Paul and Barnabas founded the church there, and Peter is said to have been Antioch's bishop before becoming the first Bishop of Rome. Antioch (now in southernmost Turkey) was then a notable Mediterranean city of some 700,000 people, but the Moslem conquest, the Crusades and earthquakes devastated the city, and, probably in the 14th century, the patriarchs moved to Damascus...