Word: algerians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soft June evening this summer, the police of industrial Lille came upon a man named Bachir Boussaid lying in a back alley with his head split open. The police knew him as a minor Algerian nationalist who had once belonged to the more moderate M.N.A. and then switched his allegiance to the terrorist F.L.N. Boussaid was taken to a hospital where, the police say, his dying delirium was composed almost entirely of names and addresses...
...F.L.N.'s clandestine organization in France, which levies taxes to finance the rebels in Algeria, operates an espionage network and an underground escape route. The F.L.N.'s biggest coup occurred this spring, when it smuggled out of the country an entire soccer team made up of star Algerian players (TIME, April 28). In combatting the F.L.N., French secret police have made thousands of arrests, but they mostly pick up small fry. In the first six months of this year, Algerian war violence in Metropolitan France accounted for 374 dead and 617 wounded. Grumbled a D.S.T. agent...
...combat commander, a 42-year-old ex-bank clerk from Toul named Marcel Bigeard (TIME. April 28). So notable is Colonel Bigeard's tactical genius and so successful his Spartan training methods that for three years, whenever French troops scored one of their rare clearcut victories over the Algerian rebels, French newspaper readers automatically looked for the name of his 3rd Colonial Paratroop Regiment. Last week, to their confusion, Frenchmen learned that there was no longer any place in Algeria for Marcel Bigeard...
...Paris government has been able to conduct a far more consistent policy than it has elsewhere. When Socialist Guy Mollet became Premier in 1956, he appointed as Minister of Overseas Territories the far-sighted mayor of Marseilles, Gaston Defferre. While his colleagues busied themselves with a disastrous Algerian policy that eventually led to rebellion, Defferre drafted a really effective loi-cadre (skeleton law) for French West Africa. Though the chief executive of each territory was to be a Paris-appointed premier, responsible for defense and foreign relations, the domestic power was placed in the hands of elected assemblies, which choose...
Bourguiba, besides wanting to be friendly with France, also wants to make Tunisia strong enough economically to withstand the assault of Nasser-style propaganda. He is reported "deeply disturbed" by the continued subservience of the Algerian F.L.N. to Cairo, while Cairo compares him to the "imperialist lackey," Nuri asSaid of Iraq...