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...said a foreign diplomat in La Paz, "we are living in a state of anarchy." One week after President Victor Paz Estenssoro had been toppled by a military uprising, about the only thing General René Barrientos and his junta of colonels had proved was that it is easier to foment a revolution than to run a government...
...that ended last week, Harlan wrote 20 dissenting opinions, twice as many as any other Justice. The year before, he wrote 22 dissents. Sometimes Harlan is supported in them by Justices White, Clark and Stewart, but he is regularly beaten by the five so-called "activists": Chief Justice War ren and Justices Douglas, Black, Brennan and Goldberg...
Best known for murder mysteries, Author Simenon here goes straight, trading in his Inspector Maigret for a new hero, Publisher René Maugras-and the similarity of names is the tip-off to the author's basically unchanging fascination with death and the tangles of men's motives. The death in question is Maugras' own, narrowly missed when he suffers a serious stroke: as the novel opens, he is coming to for the first time, unable to speak or move. Step by difficult step, he recovers; in the months of enforced idleness he ponders his career...
Replacing Lechín on the M.N.R. ticket stirred up an unexpected storm. Paz hand-picked lackluster Senate President Federico Fortún Sanjinés as his new running mate, thereby offending several prominent right-wing M.N.R. leaders, whose vice-presidential choice was General René Barrientos Ortuño, 44, Bolivia's crewcut, U.S.-trained air force commander. Unmoved by their protests, Paz was all set to send Barrientos into semi-exile as ambassador to London, a classic Bolivian ploy for settling intraparty disputes. Then, late one night last month, Barrientos was mysteriously ambushed and shot...
Surprisingly, though, the story seldom lags, mainly because some first-chop talents go at it as if the idea were spanking-new. Director René Clèment (Forbidden Games) mounts several taut scenes, especially one in which passengers aboard a crowded train seize a Gestapo agent and fling him onto the rails. Fortunately, too, the dialogue by Novelist Roger Vailland neatly sidesteps heroics. "The war doesn't interest me," drawls Signoret, whose husband is safely lodged in a P.W. camp...