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The Ranchers. Today this Massachusetts-sized land still confronts the problems of its progress. It cannot stand still. It has built homes for people from 80 different lands, coming, as Ben-Gurion once said, from several different centuries. Its new pioneer town, Elath on the Red Sea, had only 500...
Solitary Meal. From Soummam, Abbane moved on to his toughest job: Algiers itself. By December 1956 eleven bombs a day were exploding in the streets, and the city was on the verge of collapse. The French replied with General Jacques Massu and his paratroop division, who fought the F.L.N. terror...
His failure in Algiers cost him his power. Though still in the high command, he became less influential than the more moderate Ferhat Abbas or the two military commanders of the Kabyles, Amar Ouamrane and Belkacem Krim. The newer leadership aimed at combining the fighting in Algeria with diplomatic maneuvers...
The Aztec. A beetle-browed 200-pounder whose suits seem a size too small, 46-year-old Jacques Soustelle is well suited for his wrecker's work; he looks like an able-bodied warehouseman who has unaccountably wandered into the National Assembly from Les Halles markets. In reality, he...
The players did not seem especially heroic. Mustapha Zitouni, who had been scheduled to play for France in an international match against Switzerland, said glumly in Tunis: "I have many friends in France, but the problem is bigger than us. What do you do if your country is at war...