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Nothing quite so symbolized the total violence of the Algerian revolution as the barricades of cobblestones and sandbags from which its bloodiest battles were fought against France. Last week the barricades were back again. Soldiers and police armed with submachine guns blocked all highways. Foreign diplomats and newsmen were ordered to keep off the roads and stay close to Algiers. Colonel Tahar Zbiri, the army chief of staff, was in hiding after attempting a coup, and with him had gone many of Algeria's top officers. Troops loyal to President Houari Boumediene combed the snow-covered mountain range where...
This weekend in Washington several hundred American citizens were beaten, tear-gassed, and incarcerated by officials and soldiers whose salaries they help pay. It was the bloodiest clash in the nation's capital since General MacArthur's troops routed the Bonus Army at Anacostia Flats...
...Stalin's support of Beria "inexplicable," due to Beria's "cunning." The truth must be that Stalin needed Beria to con solidate his rule of Russia during the trembling 1930s, and toward that end Beria murdered tens of thousands. Svet lana's narrative coincides with the bloodiest reign in history. She almost misses it and remarks with startling naivete, "People shot themselves fairly often in those days . . . People were a lot more honest and emotional in those days. If they didn't like life the way it was, they shot themselves...
...grim irony that Viet Nam's bloodiest battleground should be called the Demilitarized Zone. The DMZ, established in 1954 to keep peace between the two Viet Nams, is a running sore. Across its six-mile width come Northern Communist troops to strike and then scuttle back over a frontier that U.S. fighting men are forbidden to cross. Other battalions slither between Marine outposts to attack from the rear, undermining Saigon's rule in its northernmost provinces...
...violent summer of 1967, Detroit became the scene of the bloodiest uprising in half a century and the costliest in terms of property damage in U.S. history. At week's end, there were 41 known dead, 347 injured, 3,800 arrested. Some 5,000 people were homeless (the vast majority Negro), while 1,300 buildings had been reduced to mounds of ashes and bricks and 2,700 businesses sacked. Damage estimates reached $500 million. The grim accounting surpassed that of the Watts riot in Los Angeles where 34 died two years ago and property losses ran to $40 million...