Word: algerianness
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...Colombes stadium outside Paris, President René Coty watched Toulouse beat Angers for the soccer championship of France. Just behind him in the presidential box, conspicuous in his red tarboosh and thick glasses, sat France's favorite Algerian, Ali Chekkal, 60-year-old lawyer and onetime vice president of the Algerian Assembly. When the French were summoned before the bar of the U.N. Assembly last February to defend their Algerian policies, they took along Ali Chekkal as a living, breathing testimonial to France's real popularity with Algeria's Moslems...
...soccer game ended, and the crowd streamed for the exits. President Coty stepped into his car and departed. Behind him at the curb Ali Chekkal stood chatting with the director general of the Paris police. Unnoticed, a shabby young Algerian slipped up behind them. He put his hand in his jacket pocket and fired. Ali Chekkal staggered and fell. A retired policeman standing nearby grabbed the assassin by the hair and flung him to the ground before he could shoot again. But a few hours later Ali Chekkal was dead...
Honorary Murder. The murder was the most daring assassination yet achieved by the Algerians in their promised campaign to "carry the war to France itself." Most of the killings take place in the wretched Algerian quarters of French cities, where followers of the Cairo-backed National Liberation Front (FLN) fight Messali Hadj's older Algerian National Movement (MNA), and each terrorize fellow Algerians for contributing to the other. Chekkal's assassin, an unemployed plumber named Mohammed ben Sadok, admitted that he had been selected by the FLN for the honor of killing Chekkal...
...forced through a 105 billion franc program of old age pensions and paid vacations and still had a proposal to socialize medicine on his books. The temptation was too great to resist: in the constituencies a vote against Mollet on the budget would not be a vote against the Algerian war (which most Deputies favor) but a vote against high taxes and against Socialist experiments...
Condemned as a Socialist, Mollet chose to meet the end like one. Wearily climbing the podium, he delivered a lackluster speech which revealed his own uncertainty about Algerian policy. Then, reaching into his pocket, he produced a brochure and like a park-bench orator began intoning: "I have here a small document given to every new member of the Socialist Party, containing not only the rules but a declaration of principles." Exploded Independent Deputy Roland de Moustier: "Enough propaganda! Your ministers spend their Sundays making Socialist speeches when they should be working." Unruffled, Mollet read out a paragraph about labor...