Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Algiers to handle rioting by European mobs; they could not handle the' outpouring of Moslems. On Sunday afternoon, a paratroop regiment arrived from the back country, where it had been battling the rebel F.L.N. Rushed to the Moslem quarter of Belcourt, the paratroops took one look at the flag-waving Moslems and then advanced, firing submachine guns from the hip. Explained the paratroop colonel: "My men have been fighting the rebels in the Aurés Mountains. They are amazed to come up against the very same rebel flag in the heart of Algiers." As the guns spoke...
...extremist General Jacques Massu operated a social center in the casbah for Moslem orphans, and worked industriously to win them to the cause of Algérie Française. During the furious demonstrations in the casbah, Mme. Massu's orphans were in the forefront of the flag-waving crowds...
...high republic of Ecuador last week was the stage for an increasingly familiar scene. In a handful of cities, mobs dragged the U.S. flag through the streets, stoned U.S.-Ecuadorian "friendship centers," set afire a U.S. consul's car. In Quito, the American embassy was stoned, and 20,000 demonstrators, chanting "Cuba, Rusia y E-cua-dor," marched to a rabble-rousing pep rally led by President José Maria Velasco Ibarra and his pro-Communist Interior Minister Manuel...
Trade once followed the flag; nowadays it trails the cradle. One result: more children's records every year. Among the relatively few good ones on the market...
Hoorah for the Red, White and Blue! (Golden). A masculine. 14-song choral salute to flag and country (The Caissons Go Rolling Along, The Halls of Montezuma) that goes off with a rousing, old-fashioned Fourth of July bang...