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Early in April, a series of plastic bomb explosions upset Paris. To many, the terrorist activities brought panic, but to some they only confirmed certain hypotheses about things in general. Shrugging off the results of an April 4 explosion near the Paris Bourse, M. Papon, Prefect of Police, declared precisely and firmly for the record: "Nothing astonishes me in this century...
...troubled Portuguese African colony of Angola, 150 settlers have been slaughtered in the past fortnight in a rash of terrorist raids led by Angola blacks who live near the Congolese border. Already Portuguese Dictator Antonio Salazar's forces have evacuated 3,500 terrified whites from northern Angola. Thirty thousand Portuguese soldiers crash about in pelting rainstorms, hunting the sizable terrorist bands thought to be still at large...
...January 1960 anti-De Gaulle uprising in Algiers, only six were found guilty-and all six had already fled to safety in exile. The stiffest in absentia sentences were handed out to the co-leaders of the uprising: death was decreed for burly Barkeeper Joseph Ortiz, chief of the terrorist Front National Français, and ten years' imprisonment for bearded, handsome Pierre Lagaillarde, the ex-paratrooper and student hero at the University of Algiers. A right-wing crowd at court wildly cheered the acquittals and the obvious fact that those found guilty are beyond the reach...
...bomb-throwing resistance to the Ottoman tyranny before World War I. He is also the man most Turks consider responsible for inspiring the most onerous of the policies of the old government. Last week, on the eve of the scheduled trial of Turkey's deposed rulers, the old terrorist tried to escape the execution he expects. In the island prison near Istanbul where he is being held along with ex-Premier Adnan Menderes and 328 other Democrats on charges of treason or other misdeeds, Bayar finished breakfast, got permission to take a bath. The guard outside the door heard...
From the Caribbean, a new and powerful radio voice broadcasts anti-U.S. propaganda: "The North American diplomatic mission is right now carrying out a new and dangerous activity within our country. Its members have dedicated themselves to terrorist propaganda...