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TIME'S Aug. 17 cover story on the Sahara is an enlightening and timely article. With the public support of the U.S., France could quell more quickly the fanatical, marauding minority in Algeria, and could concentrate on opening the riches of Algeria's Sahara for the entire population's, and the world's, benefit...
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...
Adenauer's press office tried to quell the furor by implying that the Times story misquoted the Chancellor, but instead, the transcript confirmed that Adenauer had thought Erhard lacked enough "experience" and "one has to be cautious." Cried Erhard: "It's bad democratic practice if the impression circulates abroad that here's a man in his 84th year and after him there will be nothing." Added Eugen Gerstenmaier, president of the Bundestag: Adenauer is "going too far." What looked to be a storm dying out, said Gerstenmaier, is now a storm "swelling to a head...
...cried one citizen, and with that a riot erupted. The angry crowd dragged two board members from the stage, beat them with chairs and anything else handy. With the auditorium a maelstrom of flying bodies, county police in 24 prowl cars moaned up to the school to quell the disturbance...
Discontent against Hayes-Bickford's new 15 cent minmum led last night to a melee that took 15 policemen and numerous firemen to quell. Three students who identified themselves as "bards" refused to pay the charge and set up a table on the sidewalk...