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...military pressure. Should fighting cease, the rugged F.L.N. bands will be tempted to lay down their arms and abandon their mountain hideouts, thus leaving the F.L.N. without a military force in being. To meet the threat of peace, the rebels last week redoubled their efforts in Algeria with a rash of isolated assassinations and bomb throwings. At Miliana, 90 miles from Algiers, rebels ambushed a convoy, killing eleven gendarmes. At Sidi Aich, in rugged Kabylia, 14 Moslem soldiers in the French army deserted to the F.L.N., killing four French soldiers and four Moslems who refused to join them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: Wolves at the Table | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

...functions somewhat more limited than the present organization; to limit the membership to 22, which would include one man elected at large from each House, one man selected by each House Committee, and four freshmen; and to find a way to use profitably non-Council talent. Despite Bailey's rash action in leading Dunster out of the Council, he has promised to put down the shotgun. He hopes the committee, of which he is a member, "will take its time" and think long and carefully before acting. This is excellent news. The work needs thorough research and painstaking care desperately...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Children of Light? | 5/10/1961 | See Source »

...Rash Risk? Although only stubborn skeptics expressed doubt that the flight had been made at all, with every report more contradictions came to light. And when newsmen checked back over the preflight publicity, more curious items turned up. For days, Moscow had been flooded with rumors about an imminent attempt at space flight. Before the Vostok flight, the Moscow correspondent for the London Daily Worker cabled his paper that the cosmonaut son of a famous Soviet airplane designer had orbited the earth three times and landed with serious injuries. The London Daily Sketch identified him as Gennady Mikhailov. Soviet authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Cruise of the Vostok | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

Describing himself as a Kennedy "critic from the left," Hughes credited the President with having rejected the idea of direct intervention, but reported that fear of such rash action on Kennedy's part had originally prompted his fall statement that he could vote for Kennedy "only with fear and trembling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Support of Cuban Movement Draws Fire From Harvard Faculty | 4/20/1961 | See Source »

...troubled Portuguese African colony of Angola, 150 settlers have been slaughtered in the past fortnight in a rash of terrorist raids led by Angola blacks who live near the Congolese border. Already Portuguese Dictator Antonio Salazar's forces have evacuated 3,500 terrified whites from northern Angola. Thirty thousand Portuguese soldiers crash about in pelting rainstorms, hunting the sizable terrorist bands thought to be still at large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portugal: Revolt in a Non-Colony | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

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