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...halt, the shadow government of the European ultras grows stronger. The European street mobs of May 1958, and the semi-soldiers of 1960's "barricades" week, were loudmouthed braggarts who usually gave away their plans long in advance. Today's ultras are well organized, disciplined, tough. Their spearhead is the S.A.O. (Secret Army Organization), an underground movement commanded by French officers who supported last April's four-day putsch led by ex-Generals Raoul Salan and Maurice Challe...
Bodies in Bakwanga. Whether Lumumba has the military capability to conquer Katanga is becoming increasingly uncertain. At week's end the Lumumba forces assigned to spearhead the Katanga invasion were bogged down in the neighboring province of Kasai in what seemed to be building into a civil war of serious proportions...
...possible spearhead for spreading Castro's influence to Guatemala, Arbenz is likely to prove of small value. Guatemala's leftists tend to consider him a quitter and a has-been. Instead, Arbenz will continue the role of propaganda showpiece that he began last week before the cameras of Havana's Televisión-Revolución. "Latin America was jolted by the intervention of North American imperialism in Guatemala," he said. "The Guatemalan situation will not be repeated in Cuba. When a people is so united and determined to win, when it has leaders so self-denying...
...Japanese people do not have much to do with Tokyo's trained mobs. The mobs' spearhead is the Zengakuren students' federation which claims to represent half of Japan's 677,000 undergraduates. Since the war, Zengakuren has been dominated by Communists. But after a particularly obstreperous show of May Day violence brought the wrath of the Japanese public down on their heads, the Reds lost their nerve and announced that in the future they would be "lovable." This concession outraged many Zengakuren hotheads who labeled the Communists "sissified," and voted into the top leadership a toughminded...
Onto the U.S. forces' Omaha Beach, a concave sweep of sand 300 yards deep beneath fortified bluffs, the U.S. ist and 29th Divisions sent in a spearhead of 1,450 men. They ran head on into most of the German 352nd Division-undamaged by the inaccurate air bombardment-and were soon shelled, mortared, mined, machine-gunned. But even as the German commander at Omaha announced victory and began diverting his reserves against the British, U.S. Colonel George A. Taylor ordered an advance: "Now let's get the hell out of here!" Inch by inch, behind accurate naval gunfire...