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...with his name, and a newer type of paper manipulator who merely juggles figures and jiggles stock with irresponsible anonymity. Unfortunately, these promises are not kept. What evolves is a faint melodramatic paraphrase of Playwright Hayes's The Desperate Hours; instead of a hoodlum holding a family at gunpoint for 48 hours, the corporate raider holds an entire board of directors at penpoint for the same time span...
...WORLD). Running into an exchange of small-arms fire on a road near Aumale, southeast of Algiers, Wilde leaped from his car and hit the ditch. Then, he reported: "The road suddenly came alive with soldiers, who rushed over to where I was lying and forced me at gunpoint to get up and walk over to the car (which, as if not inflammable enough, had two spare cans of gas in the back...
Seventy families agreed to the move, but 140 other families had to be convinced at gunpoint. Leading their cows and water buffaloes, with their belongings piled on ox carts, the 1,200 displaced peasants filed into the jungle clearing of Ben Tuong to be greeted by a banner bearing the somewhat ironical message: "We will root out all the Viet Cong who destroy our villages." A concrete administration building and clinic is already standing at Ben Tuong, but the peasants must erect their own thatch-roofed houses, dig a protective ditch around the site, and crown it with a dirt...
...killings to the world, the attitude toward newsmen of any nationality has veered from affection through suspicion and hostility to hatred. Rare is the man on the Algiers beat who has not been threatened by the S.A.O. Recently, two LIFE men were forced to surrender their film at gunpoint. ABC Correspondent John Casserly was told to leave town on pain of death; he now covers Algeria from Tunis. "We have no time for sentiment," an S.A.O. gunman told the New York Herald Tribune's Tom Lambert, after Lambert's arrival in Algiers in late January. "If we have...
...mission buildings in the hope that the marauders would leave them in peace. But hardly had the troops hit town when several Jeeploads of them showed up at the mission. Priests, nuns, black seminary students, as well as African and white refugees living there, were all marched off at gunpoint to an army camp...