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Wailing Siren. At week's end Algeria still seemed a smiling white city lying between a blue sea and distant snowcapped mountains. In the nightclubs along the Rue Michelet, couples danced until the midnight curfew, although traveling strippers have taken Algeria off their itineraries. At a movie house on the Rue d'lsly. Moslems and Europeans queued up to see Spartacus; the line moved slowly not because of a lack of seats, but because each moviegoer was frisked for gun, knife or bomb before admittance. At sidewalk cafes, no one turned at the familiar wailing siren of an ambulance racing...
...dazed-and just a mite suspicious. There was dark talk about the girlie shows that are planned. Local businessmen were skeptical about the "New York money" that has poured into the fair and that, to many Seattleites, seems somehow tainted. The city fathers have refused to relax the Sunday curfew on liquor. But these are minor matters, and most of Seattle has pitched in with a will, dolled up the city to a fare-thee-well. Trees and colorful news kiosks have sprouted on downtown streets; and parking meters now come in pastel hues. Some 131 projects are being renovated...
...present system limits freshmen to 30 one o'clocks during the first semester--27 of which may be taken before Christmas--and 11:15's only when they are going to the Radcliffe library. Curfew all other nights...
...France. Jostling into the Place de la Concorde, the Etoile, the Place de 1'Opéra, the Champs Elysées, and half a dozen other Paris landmarks, tens of thousands of Algerians came swarming from slums and shantytowns to protest a new 8:30 p.m. curfew that applies only to Moslems...
...Paris riots was a vicious spiral of provocation and retaliation. In late August, F.L.N. terrorists in France launched a wave of attacks on pro-French Moslems and French police that in seven weeks killed eleven cops and 98 Algerians. As a countermeasure the government clamped a 7 p.m. curfew on the Algerian cafes, where F.L.N. leaders hang out. Algerians also were "strongly advised" to be off the streets by 8:30-and soon found that police, with newly issued bulletproof vests and three-foot staves for patrol duty, wasted no time repeating the advice to those who ignored the curfew...