Word: parise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Raoul Salan-oldtime professional soldier and no man to be caught in the midst of a fight if he could help it-characteristically tried to avoid trouble by keeping these orders to himself. Relentlessly, De Gaulle forced his hand. One morning last week an aide came into Salan's...
*Among the newspapers recently confiscated in Algeria was Le Monde of Paris. Le Monde's of fense: reprinting TIME'S Oct. 13 interview with Algerian Rebel Leader Ferhat Abbas.
When he sat in the uproar of the National Assembly in Paris, Pouvanaa Oopa, sole representative of Tahiti and its sister Pacific islands of French Polynesia, was the mildest of men. But back home in peaceful Tahiti, Pouvanaa Oopa became a terror in paradise.
There beside the whisper of the surf, Oopa, who was once a fried-potato vendor and then a carpenter, roared like a Paris Assemblyman. Under the slogan, "Tahiti for the Tahitians; Frenchmen into the sea!", Oopa's Democratic Rally of the Tahitian People swept last year's elections...
In a burst of moral indignation, the city fathers of Paris once ordered a roundup of vagrants. The police herded together a motley crowd of itinerant peddlers, rag and iron merchants, sidewalk salesmen. Loaded down with their bundles, dragging handcarts behind them, they straggled past Montmartre, cut through the Porte...