Word: algerianness
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...reported himself 200 miles away over Veracruz, added cryptically: "I estimate my arrival time at Havana will be 12:35 Mexico time." At one point Cadon, who said he had once served in the French army in Algeria, remarked: "I do not like the way Washington interfered in the Algerian situation. I am taking this means to show my protest...
...Algeria that brought De Gaulle to power, and it was Algeria that could undo everything he has accomplished. Peace talks with the Algerian F.L.N. rebel delegation had collapsed. De Gaulle was faced with trying to keep a restless army and populace in check while the next move in Algeria was worked out. He sent Algerian Affairs Minister Louis Joxe, along with Defense Minister Pierre Messmer, to Algiers to check on the loyalty of the army and government officials and to probe the possibility of setting up some form of "provisional executive" in Algeria-a halfway house on the troubled road...
...senior officials can last more than a year in Algiers. The bombs the threats and actuality of assassination, and the passive resistance of their Algerian-born subordinates wear down even the most enthusiastic supporters of De Gaulle. At least half the top administrators have handed in their resignations or applied for transfer...
...Algerian seaport of Bōne, F.L.N. terrorists tossed a grenade into a hotel, killing a guest, and in revenge a European mob surged through the streets and lynched the first two Moslems it encountered. In Oran. Sidi-bel-Abbés and Constantine, European counterterrorists exploded plastic bombs. At the U.N., the Afro-Asian nations lined up 46 of the 50 nations needed to call a special session of the U.N. General Assembly to discuss Tunisia's charge of French aggression at Bizerte. Boatloads of thousands of penniless French refugees, fleeing the possibility of renewed war in Tunisia...
Violent Response. De Gaulle himself is still confronted by the two imponderables: the Algerian F.L.N. and his own French army. The breakdown of peace talks with the rebel F.L.N. at Lugrin over Algerian demands for all of the oil-rich Sahara came as an unpleasant surprise to Paris...