Word: algerians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While much of the rest of the world was on August vacation, death took no holiday in Algeria. In one four-day period last week, the French army killed 718 Algerian rebels, and the rebels killed 76 Frenchmen and 59 Moslems, bringing Algeria's death totals in the past three years...
...France and Algeria Sept. 17 was circled on the calendar and engraved on many a mind. That is the day when the U.N. General Assembly gathers again in Manhattan, and last week both sides in the Algerian dispute were busily preparing their cases...
...French were not the only salesmen on the road. Two Algerian rebel leaders showed up in neutral Stockholm. Rebel Leader Ferhat Abbas, in Montevideo, announced: "We have decided to knock at all Western doors, even of the United States. But if our appeals are not crowned with success, we will go to Moscow to embrace the serpent itself, ready for anything that will obtain liberty, just like Morocco and Tunisia...
...Messaoud. Not for pay alone, which averages $400 a month, but from a patriotic spirit of excitement, the 83 Frenchmen (average age, 25) faced the needling, bone-dry winds and the oven-hot, reddish-yellow sand of the vast desert. Working peacefully shoulder to shoulder with them were 134 Algerian Berbers...
...Djebel Berga (2,000,000 cu. ft. a day) and vast storehouses of industrial metals in other areas of the Sahara (TIME, July 1). Plans for railroads and pipelines tapping these resources and bringing them to the sea have been drawn up, but they wait a settlement of the Algerian political problem...