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...details were familiar and ugly. A French officer blown up in his bed. Gendarmes shot through the skull from be hind. Men, women and children indiscriminately murdered by machine guns fired from speeding autos. A Moslem au thor killed by mistake - because someone had spelled a name wrong...
...Algiers and Oran, the Secret Army has used every conceivable method of murder, killing 1,000 Moslems since the ceasefire, with the avowed purpose of provoking Moslem mobs into taking revenge and unleashing a racial war. So far, the terrorists have failed. Last week the frustrated S.A.O. tried another tack: its gunmen sauntered down the cities' streets shooting Moslem women and young girls-killing 18 and wounding...
...broadcast ultimatum, Fouchet tried to shock Europeans to their senses. "What do you think would happen to you the day the Moslem community is no longer able to control its despair or its anger, the day it sweeps down on the European community? When you look each other in the eye, at home, amongst your families, do you not ask yourself what the world, what France is thinking? I demand that you disavow the murderers of children." The S.A.O. answered by machine-gunning seven more Algiers Moslems, and by sending a booby-trapped gasoline truck hurtling down onto the Casbah...
...notably Kashmir Affairs Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a zealous champion of Ayub's ambitious land reforms, who was elected from a Sind constituency dominated by feudal landlords who have been hardest hit by land redistribution. Ayub's biggest triumph was the voters' overwhelming rejection of orthodox Moslem extremists, who stumped for "purification" of society and repeal of such Ayub-sponsored reforms as a ban on polygamy and the traditional Moslem system of instant divorce at the husband's whim (by in toning "I divorce thee" three times...
Brotherly Criticism. Despite such Ayub successes, the election returns showed that Pakistanis want a system that is more genuinely democratic than any thing envisaged by Ayub. The great majority of all elected candidates are former members of banned parties. At least 100 belonged to the old Moslem League, whose leader in West Pakistan is none other than Ayub's elder brother. Sardar Bahadur Khan. Moslem Leaguer Bahadur is outspokenly critical of his brother's contention that political parties, when restored, should be confined to "like-minded people" within the National Assembly, where his Moslem Leaguers will probably have...