Word: algerians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tense days a year ago, after the May 13 Algerian riots that started Charles de Gaulle on his way to power, one French Deputy pleaded: "Let us vote for him lest we lose the right to vote altogether." Last week, as the new Assembly of the Fifth Republic opened its first regular session, flabbergasted Deputies got a demonstration of just how much they had lost after...
...Assembly, the Algerian and Saharan representation is so large (67 members) that the mushy North African dish couscous has become a standard plat du jour in the Assembly restaurant. Deputies were eager to debate the progress of the costly, unsettled Algerian war. Imperiously, Premier Michel Debre declared that there would be no debate on foreign policy, at least before the Big Four foreign ministers' meeting next week, or on Algeria, and under De Gaulle's Fifth Republic constitution, which Lawyer Debre devised. Premier Debre had his way. Complained ex-Premier Robert Schuman: "I wonder if we Deputies have...
Murders & Mistakes. Despite French military successes in Algeria, emotions 'are running high there. Europeans in Algeria have been aroused by the rape and murder of two French women and the killing of a little girl by Algerian rebels. These crimes coincided with news that President de Gaulle had commuted the death sentences of 30 F.L.N. terrorists. "Mistakes are being accumulated, murderers are being pardoned, terrorist outrages continue," said the right-wing Echo d'Alger bitterly. "On May 13 we shall abstain in silence and in mourning unless some new factor occurs...
...Algerian rebels themselves, getting nowhere in Algeria, are reviving their campaign of terrorism in France itself. In the past three weeks Moslem terrorists have been machine-gunning cafés and police stations in Paris, mostly directing their attacks on fellow Algerians. Twelve have been killed, among them an 18-year-old English chorus girl accidentally shot down on her way to work at the Folies-Bèrgere...
This week more than 1,000 Algerian communities began new municipal elections, the third balloting since De Gaulle came to power. Algeria's Moslem population was showing only sullen indifference to French efforts to whip up campaign excitement. And in a rural constabulary, a French army officer admitted that he was not trying to recruit Moslem candidates, because "a few days later those men would be dead. I will not sign their death warrant...