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...rebel violence, Algeria's Moslems increasingly yearn for the end of a war that has cost (by French estimates) the lives of 250,000 rebels. The French army has confined 11,000 Algerians in concentration camps, forced 1,500,000 men, women and children into "regroupment centers" whose squalor is unmatched even by the Arab refugee camps on Israel's borders. When a French radio reporter toured Algiers' casbah last week seeking reaction to the rebel decision to try negotiations, the few Moslems who would talk at all would say only that they were for peace...
...religion, is the cloudy and dark climate which most of America finds itself living in today. The individual may do what he likes to further his own gain. The man of wealth owns a whole district of slum dwellings, and feels no pangs of conscience for the hunger, squalor and disease he encourages. The aggressive salesman makes outrageous claims for the product he wishes to sell. The novelist writes a scrofulous book in hope of being on the bestseller list, and television corrupts the public taste ... I seem to have worked myself into a most unhappy state of gloom...
...book is best when it describes the waits between action, the stolid troops, the squalor of encampments, the casualness with which a field kitchen is constructed from gravestones, the pulpit of a mosque broken up for firewood, the everlasting search for provisions and the solid enjoyment that comes from the windfall that is a well-cooked meal. Old campaigners will appreciate Gary's admiring definition of an old soldier, later echoed by Bernard Shaw in Arms and the Man: "A man who always has something eatable in his haversack and drinkable in his bottle, a reserve of tobacco...
...Indeed, Director Rogosin's reading of the facts is conservative. He is scrupulously fair to the whites, and the camera leans over backward to avoid some of the more unpleasant aspects of life in the Johannesburg slums: the open sewers and the unchecked disease. But Rogosin shows enough squalor to stun the average comfortable North American, and to prove beyond rebuttal one of his main points: that under the Nationalist oppression, black men are forced to live, as they often have to die, like dogs...
...last week, India's change of attitude was beginning to pay off. Americans were all over the place. After getting over their first horror at poverty and squalor, many enthused over the opportunities, and over a spirit of cooperation in the government that they had not anticipated. In Uttar Pradesh, Kaiser Aluminum and India's Tycoon G. D. Birla were about to break ground for a new $42 million plant that will more than double India's present 18,000-ton aluminum capacity. South of New Delhi, Goodyear was putting in a $12 million tire factory; Firestone...