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...week, messages of condolence have been coming from Priya's colleagues and friends all over the world. "He was a very brave man and a good friend," Jonathan Randal of the New York Times cabled from Warsaw. "An excellent traveling companion in dodgy places," said Safer. "Priya," explained TIME's London bureau chief Jim Bell, "was one of those quiet guys whom everyone liked. I never heard anyone say an unkind word about Priya, and I never heard Priya say an unkind word about anyone else...
Returning to France, Chagall soon learned that being interviewed for the story was no one-sitting affair. Paris Correspondent Jonathan Randal's first session with him at his Riviera home went well enough, but Chagall got uneasy when he learned how much we wanted to know. At one point he laid down an ultimatum to Randal, who was rapidly filling a set of notebooks. "You must read me every line of notes before I will agree to talk to you again...
...Then Randal got a break. The Paris bureau telephoned with the news that Algeria's Ben Bella had been overthrown and that Randal, who recently completed a three-year stint in that area, was needed to cover the story. After hurried apologies to his host, he caught the next plane to Algiers. When he got back to the Chagall story two weeks later, Randal found the old painter most impressed that this young reporter who was interviewing him also rushed out to cover coups. Chagall demanded a complete, firsthand account of the situation in Algeria. Suddenly, Randal...
...INNER ROOM by Vera Randal. 193 pages. Knopf...
Whistle's Blast. It is not at all clear how much real control the leaders have over their ragged followers, as TIME Correspondent Jon Randal and other newsmen discovered in a visit to rebel territory. They were accompanied by two commissars, one of them being State Commissar for Information, Security and Press Martin Kassongo...