Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lives will be in the hands of the Moslems they have lorded it over for so long. To prevent this at all cost is the avowed aim of an ugly, desperate new force on the Algerian scene: the Secret Army Organization (Organisation de l'Armée Secrète), an underground band of Europeans using the F.L.N.'s own terrorist methods. Lead er of the S.A.O. is not a European of Algeria but a Frenchman born in France ?ex-General Raoul Salan, 62, white-haired veteran of a dozen of France's wars, now under sentence of death for treason...
Dumped at Sea. The lethal liquid waste from the atomic bomb factories is stored in 34-ft. steel and concrete underground tanks on Government reservations at Richland, Wash., Aiken, S.C., and Idaho Falls. Idaho. Fenced and carefully guarded, it will stay there indefinitely. But much of the atomic waste produced today is, by AEC standards, lowlevel, and with proper precautions can be moved to dumping areas by truck or railroad car. To do the dumping, twelve private firms are now licensed...
...palm trees on the heights of Algiers. The head barbouze was 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...
...embassy. Could these distant subscribers really care about the new school budget or the fortunes of the high school football teams? Or were they more concerned with any and all news of Abilene's Dyess Air Force Base, a vital Strategic Air Command installation whose ring of twelve underground Atlas missile silos had just been armed with its first bird...
RESISTANCE, REBELLION AND DEATH, by Albert Camus. These actuelles, as the author called them, are short, passionate sermons on the theology of politics, justice and death, several of them written during World War II as editorials for the underground paper Combat. Camus thought as highly of them as he did of his novels and longer philosophical essays, and he may well have been right...