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...army, snapped De Gaulle, to dictate a solution "contrary to reality" for France's seven-year war in Algeria. Said he: "Self-determination is the solution laid down by the chief of state, adopted by the government, approved by Parliament and ratified by the French people. Now that state and nation have chosen their path, the duty of the military is fixed once and for all." In the sternest rebuke he has ever addressed to the army, General de Gaulle warned: "Outside this duty, there are and can be only doomed soldiers." He concluded...
...Russia, no poet need starve if he can hack out odes extolling "socially useful" goals. In revolt against sloganeering paeans that read like Pravda set to rhyme, hundreds of Soviet writers privately turn out poems about lovemaking, maladjustment, and other concerns of the soul neglected by seven-year plans. They call such extracurricular outpourings "poetry for the desk drawer," because it is unproletarian and unpublishable. Yet one of the most revealing aspects of Russian evolution since Stalin has been the growth of the desk drawer...
...cops, it turned out, already had: by last weekend, no fewer than 35 of Denver's police force had been fingered as the actual burglars. In all, over a seven-year period, the burglars in blue had committed at least 129 crimes...
...benign leadership of Premier Ferhat Abbas, 61, an ex-druggist who speaks better French than Arabic and has a middle-class habit of falling asleep after a good dinner, control shifted to a clutch of hard-eyed terrorists who had survived street battles and mountain skir mishes in the seven-year war against the French...
...administrative inefficiency, political manipulation, official timidity and fiscal imprisonment." Heald pointed directly at the chief weakness of the Board of Education: it is a political creature. Board members, who get no pay but plenty of prestige, have long been screened by political bosses and appointed for seven-year terms by New York mayors on an irrelevant formula of residence and religion (three Jews, three Catholics, three Protestants). The system has produced good board members-and others whose main loyalty is to city hall...