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What Salan's chief attorney, showboating, right-wing Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, did try to prove in court was that his client was continuously duped by De Gaulle. He produced in court a previously unpublished letter, dated Oct. 24, 1958, in which De Gaulle flatly promised Salan that his government would never deal politically with the Algerian F.L.N. Yet fully two months before the letter was written, Tixier-Vignancour cried sarcastically, De Gaulle's agent and present Premier, Georges Pompidou, "had already made contact" with the F.L.N. on political questions and had reported to De Gaulle that...
...Salan is executed, and the amnesty is voted three days later," cried Tixier-Vignancour, "a whole lifetime would not be enough to repair that error." He concluded: "Let us not sow in the future the seed of discord for a generation which is, gentlemen, in your hands...
...meeting as a petitioner. Only that morning the National Assembly had given Pflimlin a majority of 428 to 119 (on a vote against a Deputy who took part in the Corsican uprising - TIME, June 2). But Pflimlin had also heard the bellow of Right-Wing Deputy Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour: "I repeat to the government what the whole country tells...
...that they no longer had to worry so much about the U.S. wagging its moral finger at them. "Why should the French have a bad conscience?" demanded Soustelle. "It's not France that must use armed troops to put children into school." Fiery right-wing Deputy Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, who was once barred from office for collaborating with Pétain, went even further: "Are you going to have us judged by people from Little Rock, by slavers from Yemen, by our enemies from behind the Iron Curtain...
...Weaver sunk a foul shot, and Captain Ed Tixier pushed in a long set-shot from the corner. Behind by six points, Harvard pressed hard on defense to gain possession of the ball, but succeeded only in letting Tixier get loose under the basket and score an easy...