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...being circulated in ultra-rightist circles, and terrorists openly boast that "this time we will stage summary executions ourselves." In the garrison town of Castiglione, 25 miles from Algiers, a hundred junior officers met in secret to discuss how they could best save the idea of "Algérie Francaise." The army high command, which last January promised to keep pro-ultra paratroopers out of Algiers last week moved a paratroop regiment into the city for "rest after operations...
...French" settlers, who had learned from their defeat last January that spontaneous violence is no substitute for political organization in depth. Setting up headquarters in a hardware store opposite Algiers' town hall, right-wing settlers formed a new "Front de l'Algérie Francaise" dedicated to "keeping Algeria in the Republic," within three days declared they had signed up 100,000 members-including several hundred army officers. Threatened Algerian Deputy René Vinciguerra: "Let De Gaulle see Ferhat Abbas in Paris. We don't mind. But the minute he allows Abbas back in Algeria, we will...
...rie, je t'aime, Chérie, je t'adore...
...ticket only to find themselves at a party snubbed by its hoped-for guest of honor. (Said an aide: "The general does not like to attend empty social affairs.") And for a touchy moment or two, pickets carried placards crying "Libérez l'Algérie," but minus his eyeglasses the nearsighted general never noticed...
...dramatic, 45-minute monologue, Van Rie had concluded his testimony by repudiating a "false" statement-sweated from him, he said, in a nightlong grilling by New York and Boston police-that he visited Lynn Kauffman's cabin the night of her death. Nor could the prosecution produce a witness who had seen him near the cabin. Sweeping aside a mass of unconvincing circumstantial evidence, the jury's verdict left the death of pretty, 23-year-old Lynn Kauffman a mystery-shrouded suicide. Said the foreman of the jury: "I don't think the state proved its case...