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Third, the O.A.S. opposes liberation on behalf of the white settlers in Algeria, for fear that they will be wiped out by the armies of the F.L.N. The plain physical dread of extermination accounts for the desperation of their violence: no explanation of their ideas should obscure that fact. They would trust no guarantees that might be incorporated into a cease-fire, so the war must...
...dread of extermination has as well a symbolic meaning for the O.A.S., and its fear that a great tradition will die should Algeria be liberated is crucial. No one can say to what lengths it will go to prevent that outcome. But it is certainly a good guess that the limits of its attempt will be set only by the determination of F.L.N. and loyal French troops to enforce a cease-fire. Its philosophy does not allow for compromise...
...calmly, without bitterness, that he simply does not exist- he has never lived, he has only written. She adds that she no longer loves him, but she has too little strength to make a break, to start a new life; and he has even less. Death, the dread of his own unbeing, frightens him once again into the arms of the nearest woman- ironically, the woman is his wife...
...check identity papers, impose curfews, arrest people suspected of helping the Reds. And when the army opens a local offensive against the guerrillas, who infiltrate everywhere, its fire is bound to be indiscriminate. "I think the Viet Cong have done many wrong things," said one delta peasant, "but we dread the cannon shells of the army because they fall anywhere...
...Says Motorola President Robert Galvin: "In the final analysis, the U.S. industrialist will be far more interested in a potential world market of 2 billion customers than in a domestic market of 180 million." ∙MACHINE TOOLS. Manufacturers who produce only standard tools are pinched by foreign imports, and dread increased competition. Makers of special equipment, such as Warner & Swasey Co. (automated turret lathes), are not only unhurt but doing a big export business. "Now that European wage rates are going up and they're running out of skilled workers, our high-production machines are becoming important to them...