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We present numerical evidence that the SU(4) pure-gauge dynamics has a finite-temperature first-order phase transition. For a 6× 20 lattice, this transition occurs at the inverse-square coupling of 8/g ∼ 10.79. Below this and above the known bulk phase transition at 8/g ∼ 10.2 is a confined phase in which we find two different string tensions, one between the fundamental 4 and 4 representations and the other between the self-dual diquark 6 representations. The ratio of these two is about 1.5. The correlation in the adjoint representation suggests no string forms between adjoint charges.