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...MILA 18 (539 pp.)-Leon Uris-Doubleday...
...were the Zionists, the homesteaders who fought for and founded the new state of Israel. The British and the Arabs were the bad guys, and no cattle rustler could be as sordid as the Arabs, "the dregs of humanity, thieves, murderers, highway robbers, dope runners and white slavers." In Mila 18, there are both good and bad Jews. The bad ones assist the Nazis in the systematic extermination of their fellow Jews of the Warsaw ghetto. The archvillains are the Germans-all cynics, slobs, sycophants and sadists. The hero, Andrei Androfski, leads the gallant last-ditch uprising...
...chief obstacle to reading Mila 18 is the reader's own memory. The novel all but duplicates John Hersey's The Wall. Author Uris even retains Hersey's slow device of telling whole sections of the story in the form of journal entries from the diary of a garrulous, intellectual archivist. If the color tone of Hersey's book was documentary grey, the hue of Uris' novel is stage catchup, the kind of theatricality that demeans the suffering that the book is meant to dignify...
...shooting dead the Moslem director of a polling place. In a few villages, like Djemaa Saharij, Moslems refused to budge from their homes. At Gueltet, F.L.N. raiders shot up a crowd of Moslems waiting to vote and were driven off by French troops. The cost: eleven dead. In Mila, the French opened fire on a band of Moslems waving the green-and-white F.L.N. flag and killed four. Army trucks brought throngs of Moslems from the countryside to the polls. Asked why she was voting, a Moslem woman answered, "I don't know. The soldiers told...
Died. Countess Guy du Boisrouvray, 55; in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Formerly Luz Mila Patiñio, the countess was the daughter of the late Simón Patiño, a Bolivian cholo (part Indian) who turned an abandoned tin mine into a fortune once estimated at $1 billion and a higher annual income than the Bolivian government, dealt out his children in marriage to Europe's thoroughbreds...