Word: patrol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pass at the driver of the bus (Rick Jason), who has just left his wife (Joan Collins) because she drinks too much and smooches too little. Meanwhile, the salesman is pitching for the blonde: "I have depths, honest. I think I have." And back at the depot the highway patrol drops in on the driver's wife to see if maybe she isn't good for "a slice...
Vultures in the Villages. But the week's worst horror was still to come-from Algeria itself. Eighty miles southeast of Algiers, a patrol-plane pilot noticed huts burning in Kouir Mechta, a quiet, untroublesome stone-and-mud village where the French had always had a cordial welcome. The French dispatched a patrol from the nearest outpost 15 miles away. They found half a dozen dead men surrounded by hysterically screaming women, tearing their cheeks with their fingernails until the blood came. At dawn, said the women, 100 uniformed fellaghas had surrounded the village. They had seized the local...
...trussed cadavers of nine Moslem delegates who had agreed to participate with the French in a municipal-reform program). On the other hand, it has driven Algeria's million Frenchmen to a frenzy of resentment and counterterror. Typical were the riots provoked by the assassination in Algiers of Patrol Sergeant Camille le Prial, which last week brought more than a hundred paratroopers smashing through the casbah and resulted in the death of three Moslems, a score injured. Such incidents work to the advantage of the rebels by creating in metropolitan France what the French themselves acknowledge...
Last Chance. In Kansas City, Mo., James Robert McMullin, 37, complained that his two companions robbed him of $8 while all three were being taken to jail in a patrol wagon...
...that of a reserve officer who served six months in Algeria, won the Croix Militaire for the Algerian campaign: Lieut. Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, starbright editor of the weekly L'Express. Servan-Schreiber tells, in dramatic narrative form (a legalistic precaution against military inquiry), of a French patrol which is ordered to get the killers of a pro-French Arab, finds a truck with five Arabs in it, and kills all five on suspicion. That night in the officers' mess, Captain Julienne (newly arrived in Algeria) suggests: "It is perhaps bad practice to kill innocent...