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...city's broad Boulevard Joffre. six Moslems were shot dead as police and soldiers stood aloof. Brazenly, the S.A.O. bombed the heavily guarded 14th-floor office of Oran's new prefect. The day's toll: no dead throughout Algeria (104 of them Moslems), 140 wounded...
...CONGREGATION FOR PROPAGATING THE FAITH. The missionary arm of Rome, it watches over 35 million Catholics in Asia, Africa and much of Latin America. Concerned about the struggle of the church with Communism in these areas, Pius XII appointed one of the Vatican's wisest old hands as prefect: Gregory Peter XV Cardinal Agagianian, an Armenian who holds the ancient title of Patriarch of Cilicia...
Newsmen in Algiers have little hope that matters will improve immediately after a cease-fire is signed. For a few weeks, the S.A.O. will probably still control Algiers. "We cannot even protect ourselves," said one police prefect to foreign newsmen appealing for protection from the rising wave of terrorism. "How can we be expected to protect journalists...
...answered by the shrill Moslem incantation of "Yn! Yu! Yu!" Oran, a city facing the sea but turned inward on itself like a snail, was once called "the capital of boredom." Now its 400,000 people (half European, half Moslem) were bored only with mutual slaughter. The Oran prefect was hiding at the center of a labyrinth of locked doors and guarded hallways; the entire civil administration of Algiers has fled 40 miles away to an armed camp at Rocher Noir...
...hope to avoid, TIME'S cover last week on the outlawed General Salan ran into heavy trouble in Paris. Around midnight Monday, two plainclothes police inspectors marched into the plant where TIME'S European edition is printed and ordered the presses stopped. They produced orders from Prefect of Police Maurice Papon, citing author-ity dating back to the revolutionary decrees...