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...S.A.O. last week finally located the secret barbouze headquarters. It was a modern villa called Bel Air, set among the olive and palm trees on the heights of Algiers. The head barbouze was identified as Colonel Jean Leroy, 50, a veteran paratroop officer and guerrilla leader who is half French, half Vietnamese. In Paris last fall, Leroy accepted a commission from De Gaulle's government to form a 100-man underground police force to fight the S.A.O. with its own terror tactics...
Leroy Was Here. Shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve, an S.A.O. detachment opened fire on Villa Bel Air with bazookas and machine guns. Leroy's men replied with automatic arms and hand grenades. Fleeing, the attackers left behind them one dead S.A.O. terrorist under a bush. He was the first open battle casualty of the S.A.O., and is already being hailed among ultras as the No. 1 martyr of Algérie Française. Colonel Leroy, keeping his own casualties secret, moved out next night to another secret headquarters...
...battle of Villa Bel Air set off a wave of terror throughout Algeria in which the S.A.O., the barbouzes, the Moslem F.L.N., the police and the army appeared to tangle indiscriminately. In four cities within four days, 80 people were killed and 160 wounded. Several Moslems suspected of being terrorists were caught by a crowd in Oran and burned alive in their car. In a mountain gorge near Bougie, the F.L.N. ambushed a French army convoy, killing 18 soldiers-the highest army losses in recent months...
...group come to the public equipped with the same technique or bearing the same musical gifts. The Sutherland fans fortunate enough to crowd into the Met last week heard and witnessed the best modern demonstration of bel canto singing-which has come to mean the florid, highly ornamented vocal style that almost became extinct a century ago. Sutherland, 35, has brought new life to bel canto. Says she, in her breezy Australian style: "I love all those demented old dames of the old operas." The attraction is understandable, for Sutherland has just the voice to do the old dames justice...
...roles. Sydney-born, the daughter of a tailor, she concentrated at first on Wagnerian roles because "I had the build for it" (she stood 5 ft. 9 in., weighed 224 Ibs., now weighs 170). Eventually, on the advice of her husband, Australian Pianist Richard Bonynge, she decided that the bel canto repertory was where she belonged. She put in seven years at Covent Garden while developing the voice that would lead...