Word: nights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calm, steamy night in Bone last week, and the residents of Algeria's fourth largest city (pop. 120,000) slept comfortably in the knowledge that, despite nearly five strife-torn years of war, the F.L.N. had never dared attack a big town. But less than three miles away, bivouacked in a French orange grove midway between the city and Bone's airport, a commando force of 47 rebels waited tensely for dawn...
Next Kassem moved against the Popular Resistance Force, the Communist-backed civilian militia that helped the army and police quell the March revolt, then stayed on as "bridge guards" and "night security patrols" long after they were needed. The nation is now secure, said Kassem, and no longer needs such special forces. Kassem did all this in his usual indirect fashion, without specifically denouncing the Communists. He obviously wanted no unscheduled fireworks to go off with a bang before his own July 14 festivities...
...deemed needed to pressure the forces into discipline. Next day Vitolo summoned all the political parties except the Communists and Peronistas, outlined the threat of coup, got all but one of them to agree to support President Frondizi and civilian government against the military. Said the Socialists, who the night before had been demanding Frondizi's resignation: "We are for legality...
Whooping it up through most of the night on a train westbound from Chicago, Ike's grandson, David Eisenhower, n, and ten other lads played cards (David insisted that it was poker), resolutely fought off sleep. Arriving in Denver in the charge of a Secret Serviceman, David shouldered his heavy duffel bag, visited his ailing great-grandmother Elivera Doud, then rejoined his pals for a ride to Skyline Ranch, a boys' camp where he will rough it for five weeks...
...Port Moresby (pop. 7,000), the Post's termite-honeycombed headquarters has been flooded eight times during monsoons. Twice the composing room has been invaded by serpents-a ten-foot python, a rare and venomous taipan-which were pelted to death by ingots of type metal. One night a horde of winged ants, attracted by the lights, swarmed in to lay a living veneer on the Linotype machines, jam the works with their bodies; a mechanic imported from Australia had to be shipped home with a nervous breakdown...