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...deserted. In a single day in Algeria, 75 people were killed or wounded. In Algiers, European gunmen spread chaos, killing at least 20 anti-S.A.O. commandos of De Gaulle's government. The police received emergency calls reporting murders, arson or bombing every quarter of an hour until curfew. Dead, dying or wounded men lay every 500 yards along the Rue Michelet...
Reactions at Radcliffe to proposed abolition of curfew hours for upperclassmen range from "I think it's great" to "I think it's silly...
Surprisingly enough, many of the conservative replies come from the students themselves. "Abolishing the curfew might give Radcliffe an awfully bad reputation," said one junior, "not necessarily because of immoral behavior but because of what boys expect to go along with a great deal of freedom...
...official admitted that the government was on the "defensive" in Algeria. A 9 o'clock curfew backfired: with the streets cleared of all ordinary traffic, the police prowl cars were fine targets for S.A.O. snipers coolly firing from apartment windows and rooftops. S.A.O. gunmen staged seven bank and payroll holdups, netting $130,000. Another S.A.O. detachment climbed to the sixth floor of the Algiers Prefecture building, blew up the state radio transmitter that was the government's main channel of communication with Paris, since both the French army and civilian radio services are heavily infiltrated by S.A.O. sympathizers...
...retaliating, Moslems ambushed a car, killing four Europeans. In Bōne, Europeans placed flowers at the spot where a 16-year-old boy had been killed while putting up S.A.O. posters. As the week's toll climbed from 20 to 30 to 40, the authorities advanced the curfew from 9 o'clock to 7, rushed police and troop reinforcements to Algiers. French police claimed to have arrested 106 European "extremists," including five "killers." A police raid on a villa in an Algiers suburb uncovered the secret headquarters of Jean-Jacques Susini, 28, propaganda chief of ex-General...