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...announcement of the cease-fire seemed little more than a formality. What really matters is the S.A.O. For months, its gunmen have been indiscriminately shooting and bombing Moslems. As the cease-fire drew near last week, the S.A.O. killers concentrated on the relatively few Moslem intellectuals. In Algiers, a carload of S.A.O. terrorists raided the Algerian Social Center and coldbloodedly mowed down six educators-three of them Europeans-including Moslem Author Mouloud Feraoun, a close friend of the late Algerian-born author, Albert (The Plague) Camus. Next, S.A.O. gunmen attacked drugstores, killing seven Moslem pharmacists...
...nuclear technology. Starting with only a few scientific guidelines, the physicists had to create new instruments, materials, processes, even a new element: plutonium. They had to write new reference books in a new technical jargon. Their basic raw material, uranium, was a chemical curiosity. To get it in carload lots, they needed a new mining industry with a novel and tricky technology...
...S.A.O. last week reached out be yond the borders of Algeria. At Alenc,on in Normandy, an S.A.O. gunman murdered a Communist Party organizer who had formerly lived in Algiers; in Paris a carload of S.A.O. terrorists shot up Communist headquarters and wounded a night watchman. An S.A.O. theft of 297 Ibs. of plastic explosive from a U.S. Army base was followed by the seizure of small arms and munitions at the French army's Camp Satory, near Paris...
...timetable technician he at first had no idea that the ultimate destinations of the trains were death camps. He drew angry snorts of laughter when he testified that he could not understand why he was asked to supply barbed wire, "which was in short supply," for every carload of deported Jews. But on one point, the enlargement of his department's responsibility to include confiscation of Jewish property and cancellation of Jewish citizenship, Eichmann was more knowledgeable. It was the result "of the initiative of the division in the Interior Ministry under Hering and Globke." The pointed mention...
...common nights around Cambridge these days is a carload of Harvard city planners driving to testify as private citizens against some project that threatens the historic Square. By now they have almost developed their own stage routine...