Word: algerianness
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...market day, and the streets of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef, a Tunisian village only 700 yards from the Algerian border, were thronged. Shortly before noon, a flight of 25 French military aircraft-mostly U.S.-made fighters and light bombers-swept over the border. In precise military formation, they bombed the town, strafed the streets with machine-gun fire. When the planes turned back to their Algerian bases an hour later, the scabrous little village was a shambles. Nearly 80 dead and 79 wounded were recovered from the rubble. A school was bombed out and 34 children buried in the ruins...
...credit negotiators carefully avoided mention of the quickest way to cure France's money troubles: an end to the $4,000,000-a-day Algerian war. But while Monnet talked in Washington, Gaillard pulled through the French Parliament a measure which brightened hopes that some compromise, may yet be reached. After one fallen Premier and eight months of debate, both Houses gave final approval to a loi-cadre for Algeria setting up the framework of limited home rule by regional assemblies, and establishing voting equality for Moslem and French (TIME...
...Tunisians, offended by the "bellicose tone" of the note, refused to accept it. Next day the Tunisian government declared: "It is inexact that the Algerian elements withdrew into Tunisia with French prisoners." (Best guess as to the truth: the four Frenchmen were whisked into Tunisia for a day or so, then shipped back to a rebel base in Algeria...
...reply, Bourguiba told his National Assembly that he wanted friendship with France, but friendship with dignity. "The time for intimidation is past," he said. As for the prisoners, a representative of the International Red Cross had arrived in Tunis to talk to representatives of the Algerian rebels, and he hoped that the rebels would release them...
...tough talk, hard-driving little Habib Bourguiba has done his best to keep Tunisia on good terms with France, a month ago even suggested a formal alliance between the two countries. His tiny army is no match for the hard-bitten Algerian forces that have infiltrated Tunisia, and the sympathies of the Tunisian peoples are with the Algerian rebels. If Gaillard brought too much pressure to bear on Tunisia, there was a real danger that Bourguiba might be replaced by someone fanatically hostile not only to France but to the entire West...