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...Oran, S.A.O. men disguised as French soldiers parked two cars with military markings on a crowded boulevard in the Moslem quarter. The cars, loaded with dynamite and 105-mm. shells, exploded in the late afternoon, littering the street with 76 dead and wounded Moslems. Moslems mourned their dead all night long, and the wailing was interrupted only at dawn-by three other heavy charges of plastic bombs in the Moslem quarter...
...against the positions of the Katangese in the city. But delay had its purpose. Fact was, the U.N. was gathering strength for an attack that could not lose. The U.N. now had 4.500 men to Tshombe's 2,000. More reinforcements were coming in by air, plus 106-mm. and 75-mm. field pieces, as well as bazookas, jeeps, food and ammunition...
...Lone Dornier. Strongest of all the roadblocks was established on the airport road a day later; there, a company of Katanga's paracommandos cut the highway with three armored cars and several 60-mm. mortars. At least three white men in civilian clothes were with them, apparently in command; they seemed to be part of Tshombe's force of hired Belgians, Rhodesians, British and South Africans, which the Katanga government only a week earlier had said was disbanded and out of the country...
...three fresh pink carnations, murmured in German, "I brought you some different colors today; God bless you!" Understanding the sentiment if not the words, the young soldier accepted the flowers with a grin, muttered "Danke schön" proudly stuffed them in the perforated barrel cooler of his 20-mm. cannon. Farther up the street a pack of M48 "Patton" tanks were demurely decorated by jars of bright red asters and daisies perched on their armor...
With 40 sets, including tropical vegetation flown in from Florida, the show eventually cost $725,000. But Susskind was gambling on an experiment. The show was taped and simultaneously filmed with 35-mm. cameras, so that it can be sold as a feature motion picture outside the U.S. Susskind himself provided comic relief in the drive to meet the eight-day deadline. When he pontificated polysyllabically over the loudspeaker system, Olivier cracked: "He uses such big words I can't understand him." Once Susskind was accidentally bumped by a prop pickup truck bearing the words VIVA LA REVOLUCION. "Caramba...