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...Liberation army itself has grown from scattered bands of fellaghas to a regular force of 120,000 men armed with Mausers, Lee-Enfields, Bren guns, German-made mortars and U.S. 75-mm. recoilless rifles. Between the Morice line and the Tunisian border the rebels have established a major supply depot and training center protected by antiaircraft guns. In Tunisia itself, with the open connivance of President Habib Bourguiba's government (which is not strong enough to resist them if it wanted to), there are five F.L.N. command posts, two replacement depots, eight hospitals, nine arsenals and three training camps...
...clock one morning, a Renault Frégate drew up before the main motor pool of the Paris police, and four Algerians jumped out. They killed the sentry outside, burst into the guardroom, shot three more policemen, then tossed homemade bombs into the depot's gas tanks. A few minutes later, the central police switchboard came alive with emergency calls from all over Paris. At Vincennes, a group of Algerians, attacking a munitions factory, killed one policeman and wounded another...
...months had Calcutta's drowsy Government Book Depot, which handles the dreariest of official publications, experienced such a brisk burst of activity. No sooner had the first 500 copies of the central government's Act to Suppress Immoral Traffic arrived than a flood of customers snapped them up. The act, designed to outlaw brothels and subject pimps to severe punishments, was passed in 1956; but Parliament delayed enforcement so that India's prostitutes could find other ways to make a living and state governments would have time (though few bothered) to build "rehabilitation homes." Last week, just...
...Democratic Party chairman, is a powerful politician with lots of friends. He is also in hot water, is scheduled to go on trial shortly in Scranton (with six other men) for conspiring to defraud the U.S. Government with some monkey business involving the construction of an Army Signal Corps Depot in Tobyhanna, Pa. A smart politico, Bill Green knows that a man sometimes has less to fear from his enemies than from his friends. For that reason, Green filed a petition asking that the trial judge, his old friend and onetime fellow Congressman District Judge John W. Murphy, disqualify himself...
...young Tom Swanson is doing his postwar Army turn at a quartermaster depot near Bordeaux, France. Militarily, the place is a joke. The company captain is a whisky-tippling, well-intentioned weakling who has never successfully crossed the no man's land that separates officers from enlisted men. When Master Sergeant Albert Callan, a World War II hero and an Army regular, is assigned to the company, the captain quickly melts into the background. The men get on the ball, and the sergeant, half hated, half respected, is insistently felt as a ruthless, unbending presence who is long...