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...Algerian side of the frontier. All civilians-an estimated 70,000-will be evacuated from this area, and French patrols and aircraft will have orders to shoot anything that moves within the forbidden zone. To deny the rebels cover, the French plan to burn off a huge area of scrub forest with napalm over a period of three months. "If so much as a bird flies, it will be shot down," boasted one French official. Pointing out that the elimination of one forest still left several thousand square miles of terrain rich in cover, an F.L.N. spokesman retorted confidently...
...spend two years as ARPA director, hopes by then to have an organization at work that will overlook nothing in the way of a possible U.S. space weapon. His work will parallel Guided Missile Director William Holaday's; unlike Holaday, he will have authority to let contracts and scrub them when experiments do not pan out. With Holaday, he will report directly and frequently to the man who continues to hold a remarkably firm hand on all U.S. defense activities, Neil Hosler McElroy...
After two months of fighting, irregulars of the Moroccan Liberation Army, under the leadership of a squat ex-Marrakech street vendor named Ben Hamou, have driven the Spanish out of most of their Atlantic Coast enclave of Ifni. Ifni is not much but rocky rubble and scrub, but its single city, Sidi Ifni (pop. 10,000), has been used by the Spanish as the seat of the governor of all its desert provinces-Ifni, Rio de Oro, Spanish Sahara, as well as the part of southern Morocco that they have continued to rule on the ground that King Mohammed...
...Ifni and in Spanish West Africa farther down the coast, the little war showed signs of spreading last week. The tough, bearded Berbers of the turbulent Ait Ba Amrane had all leaped into the fight. Armed with anything from muzzle-loaders to burp guns, melting away into their scrub-covered crags whenever Spain's pre-World War II Heinkel bombers came over to attack them, they forced the Spanish to evacuate one border outpost after another, until at week's end Spanish troops may have held no more than three of the dozen or so first attacked...
...civilized areas, they are rapidly multiplying. Their greatest enemy is not the oilmen, but the Alaska Railroad-a creature of the conservationist Interior Department-which last winter killed 366 moose on the tracks. For those moose who prefer desolation to civilization, there are vast areas of ideal scrub brush and timberland outside Kenai untouched by man or derrick. In fact, only 10% of Alaska's moose live in the preserve...