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...built Algeria into the third largest military power in Africa, after Egypt and South Africa. He has also built a menacing opposition. Though he has purged his enemies from the Algerian Labor Federation and sacked rivals on the 24-man Revolutionary Council, many pro-Ben Bella men still surround him in high government posts. Outside the country, powerful exiles like Independence Hero Mohammed Boudiaf are threatening to organize subversion against him. Ben Bella, who could well be the leader of such a revolt, is regularly shifted from prison to prison by special order of his nervous successor...
...demonstrators at first listened peacefully to speeches. Then a sadhu (Hindu holy man), a member of Parliament, sprang onto the speaker's stand. He had just been ushered out of the Lok Sabha, he cried, because he had demanded the ban on cattle slaughter. "Let us go and surround Parliament," he cried...
Since both Scheer and Johnson will be arriving at Logan on Friday at about the same time, Ansara has suggested a fitting start to the President's 90 minute tour of Boston. When Scheer arrives, all of the anti-war demonstrators are going to abandon LBJ and surround the Democratic peace-candidate asking if there is any truth to the rumor that he will run for President...
...shops. To haul away their booty, the gendarmes demanded not planes but trucks. They should have left well enough alone, for Mobutu fortnight ago turned the new dispute into an excuse to go back on his word. Instead of sending them trucks, he ordered his army to surround Kisangani and crush the Kats once...
...same time, America's popularization of psychology is doing much to destroy the mystique that used to surround the psychiatrist. So is humor, from the countless stand-up-comics' jokes ("A psychoanalyst is a Jewish doctor who hates the sight of blood"), to the literary satires that are themselves becoming stock (Lillian Ross's Vertical and Horizontal). The mind doctor is looking more and more like any other pro with a job to do-a job not free from the pressure of automation. M.I.T. once programmed a computer to talk via typewriter like a psychiatrist. Excerpts from...