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...begins with a loving re-creation of the small Jewish community in the northwest Italian region of Piedmont, where he was born in 1919. His ancestors resembled argon, the author explains, because it is an inactive gas: "They were inert in their inner spirits, inclined to disinterested speculation, witty discourses, elegant, sophisticated and gratuitous discussion." Like argon, the Piedmont Jews behaved eccentrically, never combining with other elements. They spoke the rough Piedmontese dialect inlaid with Hebrew --"sacred and solemn, geologic, polished smooth by the millennia like the bed of a glacier." As deftly translated by Raymond Rosenthal, the oddities...
...killed, allegedly by Kanak militants. The shooting brought a mob of 1,500, mainly made up of caldoches, into the streets of Noumea, where they hurled rocks and bottles at police. Tensions increased the next day when at least 100 gendarmes surrounded a farmhouse near La Foa, 55 miles northwest of the capital. There, Eloi Machoro, a leader of the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front, a militant Separatist party, and 50 of his followers were gathered. In a dawn raid, Machoro and one of his aides, Marcel Nornaro, were killed. Jean-Marie Tjibaou, the president of a provisional Kanak government...
...unaffected by the demonstrations, except for the postponement of a few homeward flights for 24 hours. Indeed, the protests barely reached the north coast resort area. And even though many flights from the U.S. into Kingston were canceled for two days, planes continued to land 85 miles to the northwest at Montego Bay, the island's main tourist airport...
...native Melanesians (Kanaks), who are struggling for independence after 131 years of French rule. Sporadic clashes between the two groups have resulted in 18 killings over the past two months. The latest outbreak was sparked by the shooting death of a 17-year-old French settler some 40 miles northwest of the capital, Noumea. Within only a few hours, more than 1,000 people, most of them caldoches, took to the streets of the capital, hurling rocks at gendarmes and setting fire to buildings. About 30 people were injured as police attempted to restore order with tear...
...sooner had calm returned to Noumea than violence broke out in La Foa, a community about 55 miles northwest of the capital. Gendarmes surrounded an abandoned farmhouse in which Kanak Leader Eloi Machoro and 50 of his followers were staying. Machoro and an aide were killed in a gunfight...