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...detonators had been made from spark plugs and radio switches. The type and technique matched those of recent bombs left outside two Los Angeles buildings. One exploded at the headquarters for the California Communist Party. A dud was discovered at the office of the United Nations Association. Said Police Inspector Ed Walker: "It could be a nut. Or somebody with a real cause...
...citizens collaborate in the ritual murder of her former lover. In The Deadly Game, a traveling salesman joins in an after-dinner mock trial and is convicted of murder-and convinced of his own guilt. In the novel The Pledge (cinema version: It Happened in Broad Daylight), a police inspector, tracking down the murderer of a child, ends in complete moral and physical disintegration...
...from their homes shouting "De Gaulle to the gallows!" and hammer out on dishpans the deafening rhythm of "Al-gé-rie Fran-caise!" Salan's nod is sufficient to explode plastic bombs* under the bed of a Gaullist security chief in Oran or on the doorstep of a police inspector in Algiers. After each deed, Salan's men boast: "The S.A.O. strikes when it wants, how it wants, where it wants...
Hostility to the state's trade monopoly extends deep into the countryside. Theoretically, all farm produce should be marketed through the state, but huge amounts of rice, pork and corn are being diverted from official channels. A state inspector noticed a strange fragrance in the air as he entered the village of Me Tri. Following his nose, he discovered that almost every villager was engaged in baking com -a lightly toasted cooky made of unripe, glutinous rice. Me Tri had developed so flourishing an illegal cooky business that the villagers were even buying rice grain from other cooperatives...
...council's first actions: to fire Trujillo's diplomat-playboy and onetime son-in-law, 52-year-old Porfirio Rubirosa ("I have loved, and been loved by, some of the world's most beautiful women") from his $36,000-a-year post as the "inspector of embassies...