Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guns, have killed 101 persons, wounded 189 more. France's reverses in Indo-China have given the insurgents new heart. Recently, they circulated clandestine letters saying that "Casablanca will be another Dienbienphu." Help from the Hills. In retaliation for the terror, Guillaume's police jailed a thousand suspects, of whom 300 still await trial. Day after day his gendarmes roamed the cities, questioning the rich and searching the workingmen. If a suspect was caught with an out-of-date banknote (a symbol used by Istiqlal members for identification), he was likely to be jailed on charges of "beginning...
...learned last week. There were other evidences of a widespread purge and toughening of the hard-pressed guerrilla forces. British High Commissioner Sir Gerald Templer's firm drive against the Communists has apparently spread discontent and created waverers among the Communists. Over the past few weeks, some 40 suspect jungle fighters have been strangled, buried alive or beaten to death with rifle butts, according to British army sources. After a formal inquiry into the executions, the Communists' own Central Executive has admitted that in some cases, local Communist regimental commanders have acted too hastily...
Richard Heffron, the director, has done well just to keep the play moving at all. In the mass scenes his staging is particularly effective, with carefuly-controlled groups well placed and directed. Toward the end, Marco shows no signs of having been paced, directed or planned. But I suspect that is more the fault of O'Neill than of the present director. Mr. Heffron's real failing is a ragged second act that not only seems never to end, but shows no intention of trying. Had Mr. Heffron exerted his right here to cut the script and invent some business...
...began when Army lawyer Joseph 'Welch asked McCarthy witness George Anastos '38, LL.B. '41, "Are you a graduate of that suspect place--Harvard?" When Anastos replied that he was, Welch confronted him with James St. Clair, a classmate of Anastos, whom Welch calls "his brilliant young assistant...
...Martin and Izzy over to the house and let them read this letter. Tell them I will not pass the data on to any other radio or news person. The story that is developing will be one of the biggest of the year if what I suspect is correct...