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...their own organizations than with each other. Chief spokesman for the S.A.O. was blond Jean-Jacques Susini, 28, former student leader and a longtime fascist ideologue. In one argument with another S.A.O. leader, ex-Colonel Yves Godard, who insisted on a die-hard policy. Susini pulled out a pistol and threatened to kill him, and then ordered Godard out of Algeria...
...overall economic aid&3151;the benefits to the five recipients have been huge. In some ways, the Point Four program in Israel was the most successful (although the country had the unusual advantages of large private help from the U.S. and skilled immigrants from Europe). Best-remembered achievement: a pistol-packing cowpuncher from Texas, Bart McMenomey, was one of several U.S. experts who helped raise cattle production from 4,500 head in 1954 to 70,000 today. McMenomey so impressed Israeli cowboys that they learned to play the banjo, labeled the huts on their kibbutzim (collective farms) in Galilee "Saloon...
...would be a "provocative" act. But it was an East German border guard who did most to raise Berlin's blood pressure. When a twelve-year-old East Berlin schoolboy named Wolfgang Gloede approached the barbed wire opposite the U.S. sector, the Vopo opened fire with a machine pistol. West Berliners had to watch helplessly as the dying boy was dragged back from the wire and left unattended for an hour until an ambulance came. He died on the way to a hospital...
...must be explained as a success of sentiment, because there is not much to grip the imagination in the somewhat dimly drawn characters of Mara, a young village girl, and Bebo, a ig-year-old Communist and former resistance fighter. Bebo left the partisans with a big pistol in his pocket and a boy's pathetic notion that he could slay dragons with it. He swaggers about, beats up a Fascist priest, and finally shoots the young son of a militia sergeant. Bebo thinks himself a hero; he knows simply that his victim was a nonCommunist, therefore an enemy...
...like klock and starz. He believes the aphorisms he daily peddles to the young and pimply minds under his charge: There is no profit in ill-gotten gains, and Work tires no one-what tires is laziness, the mother of all vices, and Alcohol kills more surely than a pistol shot. He is a dedicated teacher who loves his work...