Word: conscripts
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...population has doubled, is now approaching 1,000,000. The first whiff of prosperity came when France increased its Algerian army first to 200,000, then to 500,000 men to fight the F.L.N. rebels. Most of the new troops were reservists drawing far higher pay than the ordinary conscript rate, and produced unheard-of business for Algiers' bars, restaurants and shops. And with an army to supply, farmers, vintners and the purveyors of a hundred-and-one small items of supply started piling up fortunes...
...prepared to have enacted a new "public security" bill that will give him more drastic powers than any colonial governor has ever had in a British territory not in a state of war or emergency. The governor would be able to control the territory's press, prohibit meetings, conscript labor and supplies, and detain troublemakers without trial. "It is with no enthusiasm that we who have been nurtured in the tradition of English law are compelled to introduce such measures," said Sir Evelyn, but the British strongly fear that Northern Rhodesia may yet become another Kenya...
...estimated 350,000 people, one-tenth of the population, are unemployed, and last week Bourguiba ordered all men over 20 who are not in the army to join a conscript labor force in a desperate effort to jack up the impoverished economy. In a fit of nationalism, he refused to devalue his currency along with France, and thereby priced Tunisia's products out of the world market...
...wife, Ballet Dancer Julika, when she was half dead with tuberculosis; he also left unpaid debts and broke Swiss law by failing, as a reservist, to ask the authorities for permission to leave the country. "I'm not Stiller!" Sam keeps shouting. But after Stiller's old conscript's uniform, much moth-eaten, is tried on Sam for size and found baggy, he is told: "You've grown thinner...
...magazine techniques, often wraps a news story around a personality. In a cover story last week on Franz-Josef Strauss, West Germany's Defense Minister, Der Spiegel scored a beat on the daily press with its disclosure that Strauss is planning to supplement the nation's conscript army with a highly specialized, 30,000-man reserve corps...