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Last August a band of El Campesino's commandos slipped into Spain to blow up a power station. They failed but, getting back to France, killed a Spanish civil guard, wounded another. Franco sent a note of protest to Paris, France, however, pointed out that Spain was giving asylum to dozens of anti-Gaullist conspirators. Dashing Pierre Lagaillarde, 30, who led the 1960 Algiers "revolt of the barricades." was photographed lolling beside the pool at the exclusive Real Madrid Club. Ex-General Raoul Salan, head of the terrorist Secret Army Organization, used Spain as a safe retreat to receive...
...Gaulle was generally getting tougher on the S.A.O., neither Paris nor Madrid was saying how long the prisoners would be held in jail. Possibly there might be a swap-although many Frenchmen were arguing that this would be a betrayal of France's longstanding tradition of offering political asylum to all comers...
...sculptor who must have known the classic Greek and Roman models, felt constrained to leave out the genitals when he painted a floating male figure in Evening, Fall of Day. Ralph Blakelock, who ended his days trying to paint million-dollar bills in a Middletown, N.Y., asylum, possessed a talent that still has the power to haunt. His small Wood Nymph is set in a fantasy forest, as dreamlike as a landscape by Ryder...
...Shadows. Overshadowed by its better known rival from Moscow, the Kirov itself had never made it across the Atlantic. Now, after a six-week success in Paris (where one dancer, Rudolf Nureyev, bolted from guards and won political asylum) and London, the Kirov is making its North American debut with a twelveweek, eight-city, cross-continent tour...
...transmitter site on the outskirts of the city. At Katanga army headquarters, Irish troops intercepted Belgian officers on their way to work. Most of Katanga's 634 white officers surrendered expeditiously and were promptly put under U.N. detention pending expulsion from Katanga. Others prudently went underground or sought asylum at Elisabethville's foreign consulates. The 11,600 black Katanga troops remained passive, possibly because U.N. soldiers staged ferocious public bayonet drills and small-arms exercises in a pointed show of power. Remarked one senior Indian U.N. officer...