Word: algerians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...growing irritation with Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba. Increasingly, France blames Bourguiba and his open support of Algeria's F.L.N. for its inability to crush the rebellion. The French have tried to seal off the 500-mile Tunisian border with heavy patrols and an electric fence. But Algerian recruits pour across it for intensive schooling in tactics at Tunisian-based training centers; trained men and equipment pour back to go into action in eastern Algeria...
Bourguiba makes no secret of his sympathy for the Algerian rebels. One of the West's sturdiest and earliest friends in Arab North Africa, he argues that if Tunisia does not help the F.L.N., Algeria's rebels will turn to Cairo and the Soviet Union. He is tied to France by education and training, and his wife is French. When Bourguiba won his country's independence two years ago, he pledged himself and his new country to maintain "special links" with France, still looks to it for economic help. He has curbed the power of his anti...
Trickling Aid. But he believes that France's refusal to come to terms with the Algerians threatens not only his own but the West's whole position in North Africa. He is especially bitter at the recent $655 million loan to France, which he and other North African leaders interpret as financial support for France's Algerian war. He contrasts this aid with the trickle of money received by his own country...
...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...