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...From a knock-kneed Brownie scout. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Vive Chicago...
...national income.* De Gaulle's abolition of a parity index hitching farm prices to market prices had hit them hard. But the indignant farmers at Amiens (pop.100,000) were pushed into a rampaging mood by right-wing agitators who broke up their gathering with cries of "Vive null and "Algerie Française !" The head of the farmers' group was himself stoned to unconsciousness as he tried to quell the agitators...
...serve your own interests. The time has come to satisfy the legitimate aspirations of the Congolese, and at the same time avoid the disappointments of uncontrolled evolution . . . Belgium spontaneously and generously calls the Congo to a near independence." One reply, scrawled with chalk on a Stanleyville wall: "Vive le Rot Kasavubu, Au Revoir Baudouin...
...master, Soustelle slipped out of his Paris apartment hidden under a pile of luggage in a neighbor's car and crossed the border to Switzerland ("Of course, I had a false identity"). Two days later he was in Algiers, whipping up the crowd with shouts of "Vive De Gaulle!" and working behind the scenes to ensure that the insurrection did not grow into more than he intended it to be: a threatening gesture that would frighten France's reluctant party politicians into accepting De Gaulle on the general's own terms...
...Last month, after his party dutifully won every one of the 100 seats in the Ivory Coast Assembly, Houphouet decided that his influence in Africa would be far greater if he were to quit Paris and become Premier of his country. Last week, as the crowds of Abidjan roared, "Vive! Vive! Vive!", the Assembly installed him in office. The new Premier announced that he would never allow an opposition party that wanted to cut loose from France, and that henceforth the glories of the French African Community would be taught "as catechisms" in all Ivory Coast schools...