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What's Up? Premier Michel Debré was the first in Paris to learn that the rebellion was on. Calling the delegate general to Algeria, Jean Morin, to check on rumors of impending trouble, Debre snapped, "What's up?" Over his bedroom telephone. Morin answered: "I'm not free. These gentlemen are in my room. I can't say any more except that we're well." Debre at once aroused De Gaulle, who had spent the evening at the thea ter with Senegal's Poet-President Leopold Senghor...
Salazar has no illusions about his task in Angola: "It is not going to be easy to normalize the situation. We will have to spend a great deal of money on armaments and troops. But even if we manage to put down the rebellion, we still face an even more difficult and serious problem: to make the colored element return to work once again in peace with the white element. The work of a century, overturned in a month...
...Algeria are not regulars but conscripts, and as they listened over their radios to De Gaulle's grim voice, to the news of the solidarity strike that saw 10 million workers halt work to demonstrate their backing for De Gaulle, they knew they wanted no part of the rebellion. Where their officers had gone over to Challe-as in Oran and Constantine-they started sabotage operations, misdirecting supplies, pouring water in truck gasoline tanks...
...world's most durable dictator turned 72 last week. It was surely the unhappiest birthday for AntÓnio de Oliveira Salazar in the 29 years of his one-man rule of Portugal. He confronted growing unrest at home, bloody rebellion in his big African colony of Angola, found few sympathetic world allies anywhere except in South Africa. But in his first interview in five years (to Brazil's 0 Cruzeiro Correspondent Mario de Moraes) the old autocrat was as acid and abrasive as ever...
...million Ceylonese Tamils, who migrated from the Indian mainland as long as two millennia ago, but who still speak their own language and practice the Hindu religion, were in a state of near rebellion over the government's proclamation of Sinhala, the language spoken by the 6,750,000-strong Buddhist majority, as the official tongue of the land. Although the controversial "Sinhala Only" law was passed in 1956 under the administration of the late Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Bias Bandaranaike, it was his energetic widow Sirimavo who first set out to enforce it early this year...