Word: algerianness
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Wherever De Gaulle went, he found the army wanting a better shake for Algeria's Moslem population, but in no mood for Algerian independence or for giving up the fight. De Gaulle's room for maneuver was small. Extremists in the rebel F.L.N., in one of those unmistakable gestures meant to show that they had no intention of compromising, shot down 67-year-old Senator Cherif Benhabyles, an Algerian, in the streets of Vichy. A friend of F.L.N. Leader Ferhat Abbas, Benhabyles had offered to be a link in discussions with the French...
...unreasonable to make such an experiment in the Sahara at the period of greatest heat," said a French official. The heat was of two kinds-the summer sun, which lasts until mid-September, and the September U.N. General Assembly session, where the French face a closer vote on the Algerian question. January seems like better political weather...
...Architect. With Algeria's troubles as his theme, Soustelle mounted a parliamentary assault that toppled two of the last three governments of the Fourth Republic. Outside Parliament he began, with practical organizing skill, to pull together the network of Gaullist and wealthy Algerian settlers who on May 13, 1958 touched off the military revolt in Algiers. Today he indignantly insists that "there was no plot, or that sort of stupid stuff." But a moment later he pulls out a copy of a book spelling out the details of the Algiers plot and, with a chuckle, points to the author...
...more promising oilfields have been discovered within a 50-mile radius of Edjelé, and one of the world's largest natural gas deposits (estimated reserves: 28 trillion cu. ft.) has been discovered at Hassi R'Mel, only 80 miles below the Algerian border...
...most of all, foreign oil companies were doubtful that oil could be got out through war-torn Algeria. The F.L.N. rebels, insisting that the French Sahara is an inseparable part of Algeria (although most Algerian Moslems fear the Sahara and have traditionally avoided it), swore to destroy any oil the French tried to move out of the desert, proclaimed that the rebel government would automatically consider void any Sahara concessions that foreign oil companies negotiated with the French government...