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Flags of Convenience. For more than four long, strife-torn years, Algeria had little local politics. But there have been three elections under De Gaulle, and as a result the majority of mayors across Algeria are now Moslem, Algiers itself (pop. 500,000) has a Moslem mayor, and Moslems increasingly...
Rule of Thumb. In Niles, Mich., two teen-agers arrested for stealing a car explained to the municipal court judge that they borrowed it because hitchhiking is against the law.
Freshened Minds. Founded in 1930 by a crusty, quick-tempered high school principal, the sect seeks to annihilate all other religions and to establish Soka Gakkai (literal translation: the value-creating study group) as the national religion of Japan. New to politics, this flamboyant sect first made its mark in...
Besides his towel-and-sheet empire-13 textile mills in the Carolinas alone-Charles A. Cannon, 66, also owns the North Carolina city of Kannapolis (pop. 30,000). His father founded it in 1906 and gave it its name, a loose derivative of his own. Kannapolis has no mayor, city...
Shut Up or Get Out. For such extremists, the "good reasons" are that one year of De Gaulle has meant the election across Algeria of 15,000 Moslem municipal councilors, the promise of massive economic aid, and a regal contempt for those settlers who want an outdated "Papa's...