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...burst. In the slum suburbs of Belcourt and Clos Salembier, from the tar-paper shacks of Maison-Carrée, Moslems erupted in wild demonstrations. Rebel flags blossomed on dozens of minarets. Cars belonging to Europeans were smashed and burned, shops and cafes turned into a shambles. A luckless policeman was caught by the crowd and his throat cut. Nine other Europeans were beaten to death, burned alive or fatally stabbed with sharpened screwdrivers...
...massed 30,000 police and soldiers in Algiers to handle rioting by European mobs; they could not handle the' outpouring of Moslems. On Sunday afternoon, a paratroop regiment arrived from the back country, where it had been battling the rebel F.L.N. Rushed to the Moslem quarter of Belcourt, the paratroops took one look at the flag-waving Moslems and then advanced, firing submachine guns from the hip. Explained the paratroop colonel: "My men have been fighting the rebels in the Aurés Mountains. They are amazed to come up against the very same rebel flag in the heart...
...festival as it did in 1954; only an unseasonable dry spell that summer, they pointed out, prevented the tennis courts from being ruined by stomping feet, and what they called the "sanitary facilities" had been deplorably inadequate. Jazz-loving Socialite Louis L. Lorillard promptly paid $22,500 for Belcourt, the enormous, run-down pile of the late O.H.P. Belmont, and announced that this was where things would jump during the festival's three days. At this the neighbors set up a well-modulated howl and complained to the city fathers. Eventual compromise: jam sessions in the city-owned ballfield...
When news of the war came to Belcourt, a hamlet in the heart of North Dakota's Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation, all but a few of Belcourt's Chippewa braves joined the Army. Last fortnight Brave David Delarme, 24, hitchhiked 150 miles to a naval recruiting office in Minot...
...told the recruiting officer, there were still young men of draft age left in Belcourt. The recruiting officer called the sheriff. Back to Belcourt went a pointed rumor: the U.S. was coming after any young bucks not in uniform. Last week 15 of them showed up at Minot, were sent on to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. The Indian maids of Belcourt were left lonely under the Turtle Mountain moon-for the duration...