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WHEN crises come in clusters, is it all coincidence? Suez and Hungary occurred in the same week, and last week was another time of reverberating violence -in Algiers, Paris, Caracas, Beirut. Mobs stoned the Vice President of the U.S. on one continent, burned U.S. Information Agency libraries on two others. Some of the events were clearly foreseeable; others could be seized upon. Some could be planned: a new Sputnik went up in Russia in time to impress a visiting Nasser. In Algiers ambitious men leaped to a balcony to power events, and in France General Charles de Gaulle, who last...
Crises have a way of reverberating; Suez and Hungary occurred in the same week, and eruptions in the West frequently accompany rumblings in the East. Those who looked for linkings last week, including those prepared to believe that the Russians were at the bottom of most everything, could begin by separating what was spontaneous combustion in the week's news and what was prepared...
...soldiers there (the way soldiers had settled in Algeria a century before), but instead returned to North Africa to train paratroop commandos, built up an elite corps which worshiped him as "le Pere des Paras" (the Father of the Paratroopers). Led the French paratroop landings in the short-lived Suez campaign in November 1956, became embittered that a political decision to halt the invasion wiped out his rapid gains...
...face that looks like a well-worn chopping block. For all his outward appearance of strength. Massu has frequently betrayed an inner uncertainty. Like his hero De Gaulle, he has often wondered whether to suffer under authority that he believes is wrong or to strike out alone. At Suez, irritated at the slowness of the British landings, Massu tormented himself with the idea of leapfrogging ahead against orders...
...Suez showdown drove silver-haired President Camille Chamoun, 57, a Maronite Roman Catholic, as Lebanon Presidents must traditionally be,* to align Lebanon with the West, and later to accept the Eisenhower Doctrine. No sooner had he done so than Nasser flew into nearby Damascus to merge Syria into his new United Arab Republic and fire the hearts of Lebanese Moslems to join in the same sort of positive neutrality. Moslem opposition leaders were alarmed at the way President Chamoun, who won a three-quarters majority in last year's parliamentary elections, now proposed to alter the constitution so that...