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...campaign of violence has been fostered by information gotten through the police, and by a consistent policy of police non-intervention in their affairs. In the past, the OAS has been able to learn classified addresses, motor routes, and meeting places of leftist and nationalist groups from the police in both Paris and Algiers. In their present intensified attempt to prevent a cease-fire agreement, they are counting on a continuation of police spinelessness and collusion to help implement their policy...
Police brutality, which Parisians have just gotten around to protesting, is by now beside the point. If one re-reads the Sarte Beauvoir manifesto, it sounds curiously out of date. The question now is whether the police can rally from their torpor long enough to prevent chaos. (Ironically, at the same time that police impotence has made things easier for the OAS, the Organization's popular support is rumored to be falling off. It is partly for this reason that the hope of a future putsch has been abandoned, and the campaign of allout violence adopted...
...Gaulle has disappointed them, however. He has indeed "gotten France moving again," politically speaking, but his concern has been too much for the perfection of his own image (just as the concern of the deputes of the Troisieme was the preservation of the parliamentary game itself, not its effective use in originating good policies). As a result, the O.A.S. feels, he has consistently failed to consult the really dynamic forces within French society, the most notable of which is, of course, the Army. Indeed, the O.A.S. was formed largely to give political expression to the ideas of the Rightists...
...baton with most of her male colleagues." Tactfully shrugging off this bit of male chauvinism, Mme. Boulanger refrained from repeating her response to a similar comment when she led the Boston Symphony in 1938: "I have been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment...
This week Williams decried his opponent's statement that he was a "self-confessed bigot." "Our bandwagon is rolling now," he said. "Since Monday they've gotten desperate and lowered the level of the campaign. These personal attacks usually are an indication of desperation. I want to keep the campaign on a high level...