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Then the S.A.O. turned to Italy. Last summer they had sent a death warning to Italy's top industrialist, Enrico Mattei, because they suspected that he had made a deal with the rebel Moslem F.L.N. to exploit Saharan oil once France pulls out of Algeria. Last week, at Rome's Urbe airport, mechanics warmed up Mattei's sleek, twin-jet executive plane to carry him on a flight to Morocco to dedicate a new oil refinery at Mohammedia, where the top leadership of the F.L.N. was meeting. Hearing a peculiar noise in one of the French-built...
...first, the Moslem F.L.N. rebels had airily dismissed the S.A.O. as no concern of theirs-it was. they said, simply an affair between Frenchmen. But with the mounting murders, this attitude changed last week. Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda, Vice Premier Belkacem Krim, and the rest of the F.L.N. cabinet met in Morocco, then issued an official communiqué bluntly declaring war on the S.A.O. and warning that S.A.O. activities could "jeopardize" the interests of the European minority in Algeria...
Pilgrim Stock. El Tor strains of cholera vibrios take their name from a Sinai Peninsula quarantine station where they were originally found in Mecca-bound Moslem pilgrims. The strains were long thought to be harmless, but recently they proved to be the cause of a deadly epidemic in Indonesia...
Balky Beneficiaries. Worst hit was the Moslem community on Mindanao around Lake Lanao. Villagers refused to stop drinking water from the lake and rivers into which they defecated, arguing "Why shouldn't I drink it, when my forefathers did and lived to be 90?" They balked at vaccinations, protesting that government health workers were "trying to inject Christian blood into our veins...
After this brainwashing in reverse, the regiment is sent into a remote village to track down an elusive F.L.N. band, and promptly loses two men in an ambush. In reprisal, the paras cut the throats of 27 Moslem villagers who had nothing to do with the affair. It is brutal, but in "Communist" terms it works, since the natives are now too frightened to help the guerrillas. The band is soon cornered and wiped...