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Most of Tshombe's staff work was coordinated by French army veterans seasoned in Indo-China and Algeria. Ablest and best known is Major Rene Faulkes, a thin, ascetic ex-para officer who was left for dead in Indo-China and who became notorious in Algeria for torturing French sympathizers of the F.L.N. Faced with a treason rap in France, many of the French mercenaries are acutely sensitive about publicity; they have threatened to kill photographers and television cameramen who have attempted to take their pictures. "The French are brave, resolute, and fanatical," says a former U.N. official. "Most...
...will lecture on the United States and the Spanish-American War--in his view the seminal period of U.S. foreign policy in the twentieth century. On subsequent M. W. F.'s May examines aspects of that policy: from big sticks to containment, from fourteen points to an alianaza para el progresso...
...explain that it was up to Britain whether or not it joins the Common Market (although European observers suspect that De Gaulle is deep-down opposed to British membership). In his turn, Kennedy explained the principle?financial help for countries that will instigate social reforms?of his ambitious Alianza para el Progreso in Latin America (TIME, Feb. 24). De Gaulle suggested that a Common Market observer would attend the Alianza's first conference in Punta del Este, Uruguay, next month. When Kennedy stressed the need for France and other NATO allies to join in multilateral assistance pacts, De Gaulle cited...
Last week the President defined the aim of Alianza para el Progreso in an article he wrote for LIFE EN ESPAÑOL. The U.S. Latin American policy goal will be achieved, said the President, "only when every form of tyranny-either despotic rule at home or domination from abroad -is driven from the hemisphere." Last week, even a Latin America preoccupied with pre-Lenten carnivals could see that the President was out to give substance to his words...
...Communist governments and to help fend off the skulking guerrillas of the Communist Pathet Lao. About all that remains of that policy and all those millions is anti-Communist General Phoumi Nosavan, who is nursing his pride in southern Laos after taking a shellacking from Kong Le's para troopers...