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...mistaken-identity stories-like the time in 1963 when police in Algeria arrested one of them for criticizing the government in print, when they really wanted the other. Last week the Bernard Cabanes who headed the news agency was buried. He was the victim of French journalism's bloodiest labor dispute in decades-and, once again, of mistaken identity...
...usually been the work of individual fanatics, rival factions within a nation, insurrectionists, nationalists seeking to throw off external government, or citizens moved to eliminate a tyrant. Seldom have governments set out to kill the principals of other governments as a matter of cool policy, even with the bloodiest provocation...
...State Henry Kissinger and North Viet Nam's Le Due Tho won a Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating what was supposed to have been a cease-fire for Indochina.* In 1974, fighting in South Viet Nam took 75,000 lives on both sides, making it one of the bloodiest years in the war's long history; 1975 will probably be worse. Although a general offensive is not expected, Saigon fears that because the Communist forces are stronger than ever, they will continue their "choking strategy" aimed at Hue and Danang in the North, the Central Highlands city...
...bloodiest campaigns of terror in a bloody century, the Algerians forced the French to withdraw from North Africa in 1962. "My brothers, do not kill only, but mutilate your adversaries on the public highway," said one terrorist paper in 1956. "Pierce their eyes. Cut off their arms and hang them." F.L.N. militants took the words to heart, striking at the French, both in Algeria and in France itself, and at Algerian Moslems who refused to cooperate. In 1957 the F.L.N. murdered 300 residents of the Kabylia region whom they suspected of cooperating with a rival group. The French vowed never...
...shooting was another in the killing blitz that has hit Chicago in the past few weeks. The same weekend seven people were killed by gunshot, and another 41 were wounded in nonfatal shootings. The previous weekend's death toll was 26, marking it as one of the bloodiest periods in the city's history since the St. Valentine's Day Massacre...