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...dead and four Algerians wounded. Gendarmes piled 931 suspect Algerians into paddy wagons and carted them off to jail. Right-wing activists set off six plastic bombs. In Algiers, Police Commissioner Roger Gavoury was stabbed to death in his apartment just eight days after beginning to investigate the European terrorist group called the Secret Armed Organization. At Evian-les-Bains, as snow swirled outside the windows, French and Algerian F.L.N. delegates sat arguing around a wide conference table and seemed to be getting practically nowhere...
...plan economic and social reforms for terror-ridden Angola? "The rhythm of implementation of programs of social advancement will not be slowed down but rather the contrary, if possible . . . It is possible we may have erred on the side of excessive caution and tolerance." If. as Salazar claimed, "the terrorist action was instigated and directed from the outside," why were so many natives involved in the uprisings? They are victims, replied the man who has ruled Portugal with an iron fist for 33 years, "of the classic technique of intimidation...
...million coffee crop, which provides 40% of Angola's national output, comes to harvest. Most of the crop is in the north, accessible by a single 170-mile road currently under rebel control. If Salazar fails to get the harvesters and their equipment through the terrorist enfilade, Angola's economy will be virtually destroyed...
...dividing its time between Hanoi in the north and Saigon in the south. According to one Western observer, it has "laid a great big goose egg." In hundreds of votes, the Indians have sided monotonously with the Poles to block investigations of South Viet Nam's charges of terrorist attacks and of arms shipments to North Viet Nam from Russia...
...political and the boudoir variety-Neroun has a lovely mistress named Poppy, who is a considerable trial to the dictator's Christian conscience. The characters represent every racial and religious faction-Yonarus, the fanatic chief of police who is also the secret head of the Christian terrorist organization; U.N. Ambassador Othoe, Poppy's aging, homosexual husband; Iskander Jamal, the flabby leader of the Moslem opposition. Besides its obvious parallel with Lebanon and its divided population, the book has a more esoteric derivation from the story of Emperor Nero, his favorite Poppaea, and her husband Otho. Apart from...