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...tasks that seem far beyond his powers, particularly since his S.A.O. has not won any sizable support in Metropolitan France. But, even in failing, Salan can seriously endanger France by releasing mutiny in the embittered French army in Algeria, which would conceivably spread to barracks in Metropolitan France and trigger civil war between the right and left. Salan has already succeeded in jeopardizing France's role as a leading European power?and the Western alliance?by imperiling the Algerian settlement that France must have to survive...
...units were getting stronger by the day. He had worked hard to build a second bastion, the "rearguard capital" of Kipushi, a mining town 25 miles away on the Northern Rhodesian frontier, where machine-gun nests and slit trenches were manned day and night by Katanga's nervous, trigger-happy troops...
...taking alarm, crying "Foul!" The city of Chicago, the District of Columbia, and the state of Connecticut have banned Radar Sentry. Other states take some comfort from the fact that Radar Sentry is erratic; in informal tests. New York experts found that even diathermy machines and neon lights can trigger its squeal. But if the gadget continues to sell, many states will consider banning it. Says New York State Motor Vehicle Commissioner William...
...fire with soldiers and security police who moved on the barracks, and then fled. The Under Secretary for the Army, Lieut. Colonel da Fonseca. raced down from Lisbon to take charge, but as he approached the barracks on foot he was shot dead, probably by one of his own trigger-happy men. Two insurgents were killed at Beja and 13 captured, including the badly wounded Varela Gomes. Five more were seized at a fishing port, where they had hoped to escape...
Disappearing Trigger. Cancerous mutations, which are hereditary within cell lines, can be produced by X rays, ultraviolet light, some chemicals, and viruses. Different as these factors seem, said Dr. Horsfall, they are probably identical in that they operate only to produce the first mutation. After that, the cells go on multiplying abnormally, true to their mutant genes, even though the agent that caused the mutation is no longer present. This would explain why viruses that may have triggered human cancers cannot be found after the disease appears...