Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of these human tides, last week, were at the full. Tens of thousands of Red Chinese refugees burst into Hong Kong to glimpse briefly the light of freedom. In Algeria, Europeans crowded docks and airports, fleeing in terror from their homes and fathers' graves. In India and elsewhere 75,000 Tibetans waited in miserable exile for the time when their mountain homeland would be free of Communist oppression. In the Middle East, a million Palestinian Arabs vegetated for the 14th year in camps and villages, still pawns in the irreconcilable conflict between the Arab states and Israel...
...keep the French right from being totally alienated. Since the April trial of ex-General Jouhaud, condemned to death by the same tribunal, the atmosphere has changed. Earlier, there seemed strong possibility that Moslems and Europeans might eventually live together in peace in Algeria, and the S.A.O.'s terror seemed all the worse against the backdrop of this hope. By the time Salan went on trial, the situation had deteriorated: the S.A.O. hard core seemed prepared to die rather than be ruled by Moslems, and the iron discipline of the Moslems themselves was cracking, suggesting that a massacre...
...Gaulle has maintained a position of honor in his struggle against the O.A.S., yesterday he betrayed it. His offer to trade the life of General Jouhaud for a cessation of terror in Algeria belies his role as the protector of justice and discipline amidst bitter hatreds and conflicting allegiances. Moreover, this desperate attempt to gain peace has no chance of success...
...used terror, he insisted, only to retaliate against violence started by Algeria's Moslems themselves...
...camp. It is a nice scene, but hardly vital to the film. What makes it indispensable is Mancini's music - a calliope, then a bass clarinet noodling a theme suggested by the old boogie-woogie tune, Down the Road a Piece. For the current Experiment in Terror, Mancini uses an autoharp; each appearance of the villain is marked by its dissonant and eerie chords...