Word: algerianness
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...France, it was a time of anxious waiting. At Melun, 30 miles southeast of Paris, official representatives of France and of Algeria's Moslem rebels met for the first time in 5½ years. On the outcome of their talks hung the hopes of an end to the Algerian...
Facing sad realities, De Gaulle went on to make a new offer to end the bitterly inconclusive Algerian war. Said he: "Once again, in the name of France, I turn toward the leaders of the insurrection...
...referendum and then could openly campaign under its terms. He pledged that the election would be "completely free," that reporters the world over could come to observe it. And to proud Moslems who are acutely appreciative of the twists of semantics, he spoke-for the first time-of "an Algerian people" and "an Algerian Algeria." Not once did he mention surrender. Said De Gaulle: "Above all, it is no longer contested, anywhere, that self-determination for the Algerians regarding their destiny is the only possible outcome of this complex and painful tragedy...
...next two days the trial proceeded in secret; newsmen were denied admission by gendarmes with submachine guns. Then came the verdicts: ten years for Frenchman Alleg, 20 years for the secretary-general of the outlawed Algerian Communist Party and one other Moslem, five to 15 years for five others, acquittals for the last two. Then police picked up the chief defense counsel, handed him an expulsion order and packed him onto a Paris-bound plane...
...city bustle is its newly moneyed middle class, mostly of French, Corsican, Italian or Spanish descent, though many Arabs have done well too. But there is little of the raffish night life of the typical boom town; Algiers' one luxury nightclub is half empty on week nights. "The Algerian businessman," said one French official, "may keep a rakish sports car and luxurious villa on the Riviera, but in Algiers he's middle class, respectable, and rather mean...