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Symptoms & Assassins. In the city of Algiers, the symptoms that brought open revolt against De Gaulle last January are again glaringly evident. Student followers of the imprisoned Pierre Lagaillarde, right-wing leader of the January insurrection, have again begun collecting small arms and are spoiling for a fight. A blacklist of known Gaullists, left-wingers and liberals is being circulated in ultra-rightist circles, and terrorists openly boast that "this time we will stage summary executions ourselves." In the garrison town of Castiglione, 25 miles from Algiers, a hundred junior officers met in secret to discuss how they could best...
...both Howard Fast (now an ex-Communist) and Arthur Koestler (now an antiCommunist) have written historical novels about the heroic slave. The script of this picture-based on Fast's book and written by longtime Far Leftist Dalton Trumbo, whose name until recently led the Hollywood blacklist-plays Fast and loose with the historical facts...
...cars, houses-even womenfolk-when independence comes, and more than one Stanleyville resident was said to have answered a knock on the door to find an African asking to be shown the house he would be given after June 30. More ominously, Lumumba men produced a blacklist of Belgians who would be "eliminated" after independence unless they left the country. Sabena's daily jets to Europe were already jammed, and 80 special flights were scheduled to handle the rush of Belgains scuttling for safety before the independence date...
...group is within its rights to protest against a book, magazine or film, says Lacy, provided it limits itself to protesting and does not attempt coercion without due process of law, such as by boycott or the circulation of a blacklist under the "color of authority" provided by an attorney general or police official. Such extralegal activities inevitably open the door for doctrinal and political pressures: "The Legion of Decency warns against a film like Bette Davis' Storm Center because its heroine is a librarian who refuses to remove a Communist book from the shelves. Films like The Miracle...
...paying Rund-quist's and Shergales' bills, both men rank high among freebooting Florida pilots who will fly anywhere for anybody if the price is right. The U.S. Immigration Service border patrol knows who they are, and last week passed out to Florida plane-rental agencies a blacklist of 29 pilots (including one adventuresome, red-headed girl...