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Last week once again the U.N. Command inscrutably chose to come to Welbeck's aid. Soon after Nussbaumer's ultimatum, the U.N. sent reinforcements that raised the U.N. guard at the Ghanaian embassy to 170 Tunisian soldiers. The Congo was represented by a handful of military police headed by busting Security Inspector Henri N'Gampo, which frequently retreated behind a hedge to stuff his pipe with bangi, a Congolese form of marijuana...
...Algeria raged on. The French, as they have all along, claimed they were winning. They say that there are only 7,600 F.L.N. regulars in Algeria today, compared with 16,000 two years ago. But they admit that some 18,000 rebels are in battle readiness across the Tunisian border, and another 8,000 encamped in Morocco...
...Gaulle's onetime Tunisian supporter, President Habib Bourguiba, has now turned against him. Long eager to mediate between De Gaulle and the Algerian rebels, Bourguiba was outraged when De Gaulle refused to even see the Tunisian ambassador in Paris, Bourguiba's own son. Bourguiba ordered him recalled. As for Algeria, Bourguiba's patience seemed to have run out. Said he: "We will accept all action, all aid, all intervention. Whether it is under Russian or Chinese pressure, through American intervention, or finally by direct negotiations, any means is good...
...endless flow of novels about broken marriages rest on a few well-tried fictional supports: the triangle, intrusion of job or career, incapacity to keep loving, failure to communicate. Most such books read as if they were inspired by the stale, paid advice of a marriage counselor. In Strangers, Tunisian Novelist Albert Memmi writes with relentless can dor of a far grimmer marital crack-up in a far more ferocious setting than is usually found in the bored, semi-Freudian cold war between American husbands and wives. If Author Memmi's lovers never have a chance, it takes marriage...
...marriage Memmi describes is "mixed." The hero-narrator is a Tunisian Jew studying medicine in Paris. Marie is a young Alsatian student from a Catholic family. At first the very difference in their backgrounds acts as a spur to their love. When Marie learns that he wants to return to Tunisia to practice among his people, she readily agrees to go with him. But in Tunisia they are met by her husband's family, a noisy, colorful clan she was wholly unprepared for. Their food seems outlandish, their curiosity rude. After the long drawn-out, seemingly crude Passover celebration...