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September came to California with a searing surge of heat and threat of fire. From the coast hills clear up to timberline in the High Sierras, timber and brush were crackling dry and ready to flare like spilled gunpowder. Then electric storms came, and lightning lit the kindling; within ten days, 400 big and small fires flared across the countryside. By last week, when rain fell, some 300,000 acres had been charred to ashes by California's most disastrous fires in 30 years...
Item: The Gaza strip between Israel and Egypt has seen 70 Egyptians and Israelis killed in the latest flare...
...suddenly as it started, the flare of passion subsided; the men facing each other beneath the dazzling chandeliers were professionals who could not afford the easy-out of strong feelings. Nikita Khrushchev, under control again, switched from strong words to soft. One should bury memories of the past, he said, because vengeance is not a good adviser; there must be good relations between Russians and Germans. A cold correctness replaced the honest heat of emotion. When the delegates strode out of the palace that day, Adenauer's face was grim. So far the conference, said a German, had produced...
...flare-up of Greco-Turkish tension was a reminder of the days when thousands upon thousands of Greeks and Turks lost their lives in bloody conflict after World War I. NATO officers have always been careful not to let Greek and Turkish units meet in mock combat, for fear that they might begin firing in earnest. Now that Greece was embroiled with both Britain and Turkey, the Greeks last week prudently decided to withdraw all their forces from NATO's scheduled war games in the Mediterranean...
...usual in such cases, the U.N. mediator, Canada's Major General Edson L. M. Burns, respected as much for his toughness as for his patience, tried to get both sides together: the familiar rhythm in these flare-ups is violence met with violence and followed by quiet. But this time the rhythm was broken. Small groups of Arab raiders carried the fight deep into Israel. Known as Al Fedayeen (Self-Sacrificers), the sneaker-shod guerrillas are recruited from Palestinian Arab refu gees, and are thus adventurers without a country who know Israel's landscape because it was once...