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...property, canceled his passport, and denounced the rebels as "quite mad, irresponsible boys who are deliberately trying to break the Saudi family tradition and hold it up to ridicule." Mad indeed, Rebel Talal headed for Cairo to drum up more support behind his solemn vow: "We will overthrow King Saud very soon-sooner than you think." Talal would find quick sympathy in Egypt's capital, where Gamal Abdel Nasser for years has been using spies, subversion and radio propaganda in an effort to undermine the old King...
...west Algerian city of Tiaret. In the reviewing stand, dissident Vice Premier Ahmed ben Bella listened to the cheers of thousands of Moslem women chanting Yu! Yu! Yu!, then settled back to listen to a round of speeches from his top aides, attempting to justify his bid to overthrow the government of Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda. Just as one speaker assured the crowd that "Algeria is not the Congo," a messenger passed word to the assembled dignitaries that perhaps it really was. Some 320 miles to the east, at Constantine, Algerians had fired on Algerians; soldiers supporting Ben Bella wrested control...
...South Korea, Adnan Menderes in Turkey. Ne Win gave his army a free hand, and the troops opened fire, killing 16 students and wounding 42. A government spokesman explained that it had been necessary to dynamite the Student Union because "it was a haven for underground leaders, plotting the overthrow of the government," and Ne Win, in a nationwide broadcast, broadly hinted that the student leaders were Communists...
...Arequipa, and after instructing a crowd of 6,000 supporters to raise barricades around his campaign headquarters he demanded the appointment of a "tribunal of honor" to revise the election results- otherwise he would fight. "In case the government does not comply," he cried, "we will be compelled to overthrow it and punish it for its misdeeds...
...publisher peddles filth through the mails. In some public square, a Communist advocates violent overthrow of the U.S. Government. Elsewhere, federal employee blabs security secrets to anyone who will listen. Long before a man accused of murder comes to trial, a newspaper recommends hanging. What should be done about the pornographer, the Communist, the spiller of state secrets, the newspaper that beats justice...