Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demand for Gizenga to return to Leopoldville and take the Deputy Premier's seat he had abandoned last October. Some of Gizenga's own party followers in the Leopoldville Chamber of Deputies supported the resolution against him. Said one: "We have had enough of the anarchy and terror that reign in our province. If he does not return within 48 hours, we must take the governmental mandate away from...
...identified as Colonel Jean Leroy, 50, a veteran paratroop officer and guerrilla leader who is half French, half Vietnamese. In Paris last fall, Leroy accepted a commission from De Gaulle's government to form a 100-man underground police force to fight the S.A.O. with its own terror tactics...
...battle of Villa Bel Air set off a wave of terror throughout Algeria in which the S.A.O., the barbouzes, the Moslem F.L.N., the police and the army appeared to tangle indiscriminately. In four cities within four days, 80 people were killed and 160 wounded. Several Moslems suspected of being terrorists were caught by a crowd in Oran and burned alive in their car. In a mountain gorge near Bougie, the F.L.N. ambushed a French army convoy, killing 18 soldiers-the highest army losses in recent months...
...heed the advice of Earl E. T. Smith and Arthur Gardner, two former Ambassadors to Cuba who urged that his country help its "good friend" Batista, restitution is being made in Haiti. There, U.S. support of Duvalier props up a hated dictatorship, suppressing five million people by secret-police terror and open violence. Duvalier has ignored the Constitution and dispensed with free elections. Still, one-third of his budget comes from the United States, and his personal army was trained by the Marine Corps in the name of anti-Communism...
...French side. He hears the equivalent of the native tom-toms in the automobile horns with which the French ultras like to beat out the rhythm Al-gé-rie fran-çaise. "The unification of the Algerian people is producing the disintegration of the French people. Terror has left Africa and established itself here in France. Violence thus comes full circle, going this way and that way until, step by step, we are going native...