Word: algerians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transfer of Algerian Rebel Leader Mohammed ben Bella and four of his colleagues from Paris' Santé prison to more comfortable quarters in a military fortress. Henceforth, the five rebel leaders (whom the French kidnaped off a Moroccan plane in 1956) will have the honorable status of military prisoners. ¶The release of 7,000 Algerians from political detention camps. ¶ The commutation to life imprisonment of all death sentences (198) hanging over members of the rebel F.L.N...
...This puts a premium on murder," objected an indignant Algerian Moslem member of the National Assembly whose son and son-in-law were both killed by F.L.N. terrorists last month. Rumors spread through Paris and Algiers that private talks are being carried on by the French with F.L.N. representatives. Premier Debré insisted in the Assembly that De Gaulle's October invitation to Algerian leaders to come to Paris under safe-conduct to negotiate "a peace of the brave" was still open. "No other offer," said Debré, "has been or could ever be envisaged." Yet such denials...
...representatives in the National Assembly were angered by a phrase in De Gaulle's inaugural speech showing that he does not consider Algeria a part of Metropolitan France. French colonists in Algeria were even more disturbed by the prospect that De Gaulle, as President, intends to pardon five Algerian rebel captives, kidnaped by French agents on a 1956 flight to Tunis. Among them is Mohammed ben Bella. Deputy Premier of the Algerian government-in-exile. The five would be transferred from a Paris prison to more comfortable detention on Belle-He, off the coast of Brittany...
...array of troubles before De Gaulle is indeed sobering. The country is basically prosperous, but its economy is restrictive. Politically, the new Assembly, calling itself Gaullist, is considerably more rightist in outlook than the general himself. Above all, the four-year-old Algerian Moslem revolt continues to drain France of $2,400,000 a day, and prospects for a negotiated end to the fighting, once considered high, were badly dashed last October, when the rebels angrily considered De Gaulle's soldier-to-soldier, "flag-of-truce" offer a humiliating proposal...
...swell his majority in the constitutional referendum. By showing himself willing to offer Algeria's Moslem rebels something besides naked force, and by taking the gamble of extending the constitutional referendum to Algeria, he reconciled many left-wingers to his tighter, more disciplined constitution, added another 3,500,000 Algerian votes to his majority, and threw the rebel National Liberation Front onto the psychological defensive...