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...Jail. While Deputies passionately talked, word spread among the thousands of Algerians in the slums of Paris: strike on Friday. Paris woke up to find scores of little cafés closed and many local industries, including the Citroen plant, crippled for lack of workers. Police strengthened their cordon around the Chamber of Deputies, while the garde mobile (riot police) set up strongpoints all over Paris. By 1 p.m. thousands of Algerians had gathered at the Moslem mosque near the Gare d'Austerlitz. At 3 p.m. they formed themselves into a straggling parade led by a girl dressed...
...France's youngest Deputy, a handsome, tough tavern brawler with a law degree, a kind of lowbrow intellectual primitive who is currently the darling of Paris café society. Son of a fisherman, he won a scholarship to study law in Paris, cut an impressive swath through the Latin Quarter's bistros and student clubs. After graduation, he volunteered for service in Indo-China as a parachutist ("I was tired of amateur fighting"), but got there too late to fight...
Novelist Shaplen's setting is authentic. His Saigon is hot, and more oppressive than the heat is the sense of deceit, mistrust and danger. Communist terrorists hurl grenades into cafés in broad daylight. Harmless-looking old shopkeepers convert their shabby little stores into arms depots for Communist agents. A Chinese gambling-house operator runs weapons to the enemy. Counterespionage is apt at any time to burgeon into counter-counterespionage. At this game Adam Patch is about as subtle as a sand-lot quarterback. A Vietnamese doctor shows up, claiming to be a deserter from the Communists, with...
...sturdiest military opponent of the golpistas was majestic, stony-faced Lieut. General Henrique Teixeira Lott, War Minister under President João Café Filho, Vargas' successor. No great admirer of Kubitschek, non-political General Lott felt, nevertheless, that the army's clear duty was to accept the voters' decision and uphold the constitution. With most of the key army commanders on his side, Lott had enough firepower to keep the anti-inauguration camp from even trying to bring off a golpe-so long as he remained War Minister. To be on the safe side, Lott...
Early in November President Café Filho, who had tried to stay neutral in the behind-the-scenes struggle, suffered a mild heart attack and went on sick leave. In keeping with the constitution, Chamber of Deputies Speaker Carlos Luz, suspected of golpista sympathies, took over as Acting President. On Nov. 10 Luz forced General Lott to resign. Lett's successor, a golpista army general, was waiting in the next room...