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...warring chiefs. Benkhedda himself reached power as an activist leftist. Ben Bella's army support comes from the military chiefs in the wilayas, who during the war won a certain amount of autonomy, and are reluctant to give it up to Benkhedda's Provisional Government. To reassert their voice, they have banded behind Ben Bella in his takeover bid, but they are perfectly capable of trying to shunt him aside too, should he attempt to exercise authority over them as did Benkhedda. Ben Bella's chief lever is his charismatic popularity with the masses; his power...
Laos was dreamed up by French Diplomat Jean Chauvel, who in 1946 was France's Secretary-General of Foreign Affairs. At the time, France was trying to reassert its authority in Indo-China, whose rebellious inhabitants had no desire to return to their prewar status as colonial subjects. In place of original Indo-China, consisting of various kingdoms and principalities, Paris put together three new autonomous states within the French Union: Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos. Drawing lines on a map, Chauvel created Laos by merging the rival kingdoms of Luangprabang, whose monarch became King of Laos, with Champassak...
...They have proved themselves engaged in a fight to the death; the O.A.S. would not lay down their arms merely to save Johaud, nor would Jouhaud desire the collapse of the O.A.S. himself. DeGaulle's offer can only be met by increased slaughter and violence. Hopefully de Gaulle will reassert his authority--he cannot leave any doubt as to who is master in Algeria. As it stands, his offer will be greeted by the contempt of the O.A.S.; Algeria will suffer further bloodshed and violence...
...himself; Roca, listed No. 5, was the only old Communist named. Cuba would now have a Vice Premier to take over in case anything happened to the Maximum Leader himself: he would be Raul Castro, Fidel's brother. Then Castro went on TV to denounce the Reds and reassert his own leadership. He could not lambaste Roca (he was too strong), but he lashed out at Roca's lieutenant, Anibal Escalante, purged him from O.R.I, and drove him into exile in Czechoslovakia. Bias Roca himself dropped out of sight on an "inspection tour" of the provinces...
Oxford's Sir Kenneth Clark respects and admires the faceless art of abstract expressionism, but he does not think it will be around forever. At Wellesley last week, he prophesied: "The imitation of external reality is a fundamental human instinct which is bound to reassert itself." To prove his point. Sir Kenneth talked about two kinds of painters-apes and children-whom the crudest of critics like to lump with the abstract expressionists...