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...future discussions on the status of Cyprus, and, in the meantime, the government was prepared to offer safe-conduct out of Cyprus to any EOKA member who wanted to leave. (As a token of good faith, Field Marshal Sir John Harding, the Governor of Cyprus, called off a dragnet operation by 3,000 British troops who in Harding's confident view were on the verge of capturing Colonel George Grivas, EOKA's Greek commander...
...Purge: tough, ruthless Kadar fell into Rakosi's dragnet during the anti-Tito campaign, resisted intense torture, including the fingernail treatment, applied by Police Chiefs Gabor Peter and Vladimir Farkas (both now in jail). Secretly tried, he was moved from prison to prison because of his reputation as an escape artist. Released during the post-Stalin "liberalization" period, he got a minor job in one of Budapest's 22 party districts...
...Jack (Dragnet) Webb...
...military quicksands of Algeria, the French army struggled a few steps forward. Five thousand troops last week swung a long dragnet out from the Moroccan border, began inching northward toward the sea, where ten warships waited for the advance to flush out fleeing rebels. In the Kabylie area, some 210 villages once controlled by the rebels offered their submission. But in Paris, Socialist Finance Minister Paul Ramadier announced gloomily that the North African war was costing a billion francs ($2,850,000) a day-as much as the Indo-China war took at its peak, and without any U.S. help...
...sardonic, unrelenting smile is very convincing. Michael Rennie, nattily attired in a Bond-tailored-to-measure suit, is the London office's special troubleshooter sent to Ankara to bust open the nasty mess. He and his Hollywood-styled henchmen, who take part in the inevitable last-reel chase, resemble Dragnet posses currently on view on television. Otherwise, settings appear authentic, and the total lightweight result is quite entertaining...