Word: algerianness
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...Gaulle did not move against the committees until the referendum gave him true legitimacy and an overwhelming public mandate. Early this month, when a pair of Algerian Moslem visitors privately reported to him that the Algiers Committee of Public Safety had already chosen a list of "approved Moslem candidates'' for next month's election to the French National Assembly, he decided to act. "What imbeciles!" exploded De Gaulle. "The future of Algeria depends on these elections, and here they are circulating lists designed to sabotage all the plans." Still seething, De Gaulle fired off a peremptory directive...
...Moslems of every political stripe must be free to run for office, excepting only active members of the rebel F.L.N. with criminal charges against them. Even candidates who favor outright Algerian independence must be allowed...
...Gaulle as his intermediaries with the F.L.N. Whether or not the rebels agreed to this scheme, it was a measure of Charles de Gaulle's political accomplishments that, for the first time in four bloody years, responsible men saw cause to hope for a peaceful settlement of the Algerian...
...Among the newspapers recently confiscated in Algeria was Le Monde of Paris. Le Monde's of fense: reprinting TIME'S Oct. 13 interview with Algerian Rebel Leader Ferhat Abbas...
...gave his personal guarantee of safe conduct to the representatives of the Algerian National Liberation Front--leaders of the four-year-old rebellion...