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...rebels have offered legal assurances of protecting white settler rights, but they seem to have designs on colon farm land that would conflict with such guarantees. Says Abdul Hand Boussouf, the secretive young (32) man generally rated the single most powerful leader in the F.L.N.'s inner councils: "The big estates will be broken up. I have a cousin with several thousand acres. They will be taken away from him. We want to make Algeria a country with totally different structures...
...things were becoming clearer. As a hope and a plan, Algérie Française was dead. The European extremists, whose mob violence overthrew the Fourth Republic, had proved paper tigers. And in the face of the mass Moslem hostility displayed last week, not even the most misguided colon could continue the fiction that the silent Moslems (who are nine-tenths of the population) secretly longed to become Frenchmen and make Algeria an integral part of France...
...wolfed down a plate of scrambled eggs with a hidden ingredient-a chip of enamel that had lodged in his throat and sabotaged his larynx. Once it was removed, he regained his voice, drew mighty ovations and endless curtain calls from the audiences in B.A.'s old Colon Theater...
...when waste matter becomes fixed in small, hernia-like outward bulges of the intestinal wall that sometimes develop where blood vessels enter. Bacteria multiply in the waste, and the intestinal wall becomes inflamed and infected. Untreated, the infection may rupture and form an abscess outside the wall of the colon. A fistula is an abnormal passage that burrows into another organ or to the outside of the body. Symptoms in severe cases of diverticulitis:* nausea, vomiting, pain, constipation or diarrhea, chills and fever. Possible treatments: antibiotics, special diet, surgery...
...Similar to some symptoms of colon cancer...