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...Soustelle, once the most passionate Gaullist of them all, is calling for a new political movement to embrace all anti-Gaullist forces. Blustering Pierre Poujade, the demagogic champion of the 1953 tax strike by shopkeepers, tried to make common cause with the former commander in chief in Algeria, General Raoul Salan, 61, who has become a virulent opponent of De Gaulle's policy and was recently ordered to stay out of Algeria. At a Paris news conference last week in the Palais d'Orsay Hotel, newsmen found Salan flanked by 30 retired generals in mufti, a band...
Rhode Island. The surprise primary victory of Democrat Claiborne deBorda Pell (TIME, Oct. 10) upset the campaign plans of Raoul Archambault Jr., who thought he would be running against one of two old-line Democrats: former Governor Dennis Roberts or former U.S. Attorney General J. Howard McGrath. Archambault, a conservative's conservative, has shifted to a frontal assault on Democratic spending. A strong Democratic trend, a big Catholic vote and the proximity of New Englander Kennedy should put Pell over...
When his family's longtime friend Theodore Green heard of his doubts about beating Republican Nominee Raoul Archambault Jr., 39, former assistant director of the U.S. budget, the old patriarch (93) set Claiborne straight: "Tush, young man, you don't have to worry in this state...
...famous "May 13" army-settler revolt in Algiers two years ago, sad-eyed General Raoul Salan, army commander in Algeria, was the first to cry "Vive De Gaulle" to the unruly crowd from his Algiers balcony. For months, Salan was grimly steadfast as De Gaulle went on to promise Algerians a referendum offering three choices, including independence. Two weeks ago, Salan had enough. "No one," he said defiantly, has a right "to decide to give up a portion of territory under French sovereignty, above all in Algeria." The colons and right-wing ultras of Algiers, hailed Salan as their...
...spends more than 5% of Pechiney's gross on research, higher than other European companies. The company has done so well that it sells many of its processes abroad to Alcoa and other U.S. firms, has sent engineers to five continents to help construct aluminum and chemical plants. Raoul de Vitry has led Pechiney back into chemicals in force; the firm has built up a whole new range of products-plastics, fertilizers, petrochemicals, synthetic fibers. Last year it raised its exports 50%, to 33% of total sales...