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...First Mobile Brigade searched his apartment; in it they found the lined rose-tinted pad on which all 58 of the strangler's messages had been written. After 24 hours of grilling, LeÚger burst into tears and admitted: "Oui, je suis bien I'assassin du petit Luc." He was drawn to the little boy, he explained, because "he seemed as unhappy as I was when...
While pro-Senghor demonstrators chanted, "A single hat on a single head," more than 1,000,000 Senegalese shuffled to the polls and handed Senghor a 99.5% oui on a new Senghor-tailored constitution. True to the slogan, the new charter scraps Senegal's two-man, President-Premier system in favor of a single, strong presidency for Senghor...
...independent judiciary empowered to reject unconstitutional measures. Moreover, the President can bypass a balky Assembly at will by taking controversial issues to the people; he has already used the referendum seven times. While De Gaulle calls this process "direct democracy," constitutional lawyers object that the right to answer oui or non to a government's proposals is no substitute for democratic debate. De Gaulle shrugs aside such remonstrances. "Foam," he cries, "nothing but the foam of the wave. The depths of the popular wave are with me." The election results bore...
...just going to follow their normal pattern: the President was going to overthrow Parliament and radically alter the Constitution. And he did both--but the results of his actions left de Gaulle in an ambiguous situation, in a world far removed from one ruled by the simple alternatives of "oui" and "non" which he favors...
...accept a single political gain on the part of the Moslems frustrated every French government effort at amelioration. Perfectly reasonable laws for Moslem "partnership" that might have prevented the war went on the books in Paris, but were never applied in Algeria. A few tame Moslems, known as beni-oui-ouis (yes-men), were allowed to participate in the government, but elections were so frankly rigged that even in France itself, "les elections algeriennes" was a phrase to describe stuffing the ballot box. An old Berber once complained to Ethnologist Germaine Tillion: "You've led us to the middle...