Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berlin, just inside Communist territory. There, a small group determined to flee to the West, despite the Wall, which in their area consists of a double barbed-wire fence patrolled by tommy-gun-toting guards. Escape seemed impossible until one of the villagers had an idea: Why not go underground? A stucco house stood empty only 20 ft. from the wire. Soon shovels were biting through the cellar wall and into the sandy soil. The digging was not difficult, but only one man at a time could work at the head of the narrow tunnel; employing the classic technique...
Most cinemagoers today have forgotten the Mighty Wurlitzer along with the choruses of Sunkist Beauties, the personality bandleaders, and the bouncing ball - all victims of the talking picture. But there is one group that still remembers: a fiercely dedicated underground called the American Association of Theatre Organ Enthusiasts. Like the electric-trolley buffs and the antique-auto fanciers, the Enthusiasts are a diehard coterie, with a single-minded mission: to save those mighty relics of the recent past from the wrecker's hammer...
...with hair dyed black and a new mustache?gave a TV interview to a U.S. broadcasting team without police interference. Salan's whereabouts are shrouded in mystery: on the same day he has been reported in Belgium and at Algiers' Otomatic cafe, an S.A.O. hangout. When he first went underground, he was hidden in the fertile Mitidja plain south of Algiers, whose well-to-do pied-noir farmers...
...surrender. Curtly the general answered, "No!" Weeping, Lucienne Salan tied a silk scarf about her husband's neck in a farewell gesture. Generals Challe and Zeller returned to France as prisoners; Generals Salan and Jouhaud, with some 100 deserters from the ist Foreign Legion Paratroop Regiment, disappeared into the underground...
...F.L.N. Provisional Government smugly announced that the S.A.O. was not an F.L.N. concern; it was an "affair between Frenchmen." But as the toll of Moslem deaths mounted in gunfights and ratonnades, Benkhedda reversed himself. This month, in an official communique, the F.L.N. declared war on the S.A.O. In Algiers, underground fighters stood guard at Moslem cafes and clubs; "self-defense units" were formed in the Moslem bidonvilles (shanty towns). Fellagha gunmen stopped skirmishing with the French-army patrols to step up attacks on S.A.O. terrorists...