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Cajun Music: A Culture’s Heartbeat

Saturday night isn’t quiet in southern Louisiana. The sounds of accordions, guitars, fiddles and triangles pierce the air from Houma to Lake Charles, from the tiny French Casino Bar at Mamou to the bigger nightclubs in and around Lafayette. It’s Cajun music being played, a

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Marcel Ophuls and the ORTF: The Sorrow and the Pity

Paris, France July 31, 1972   Marcel Ophuls quit French state-controlled television in 1968 following an abortive 15,000-employee strike for freedom of information. “I knew the censorship situation would become even worse than it was before,” he said. And it appears that he was right.

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Men From Atacama

Mr. Diuguid is a 1965 Alicia Patterson Fund fellowship award winner on leave from The Washington Post. Permission to publish this article may be sought from the Foreign Editor, The Washington Post. In the program to determine whether life, as they knew it, existed on