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...talking about. But except for the arrest of Paques, SDECE took no steps that Washington could see to flush out the spies. De Vosjoli's superior at SDECE explained that France could not stand a major scandal at a time when it was just recovering from the Algerian war, but De Vosjoli suspected that "other, possibly sinister, forces were the real reason for the inaction." He leaves open to speculation whether it was inside work by Soviet agents, suspicion that the CIA was using the affair to smoke-screen its own activity in France, or mere Gaullist pique...
...able to use the facilities of the big British naval base at Singapore, which Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew has said he will rent to all comers after the Royal Navy pulls out in 1971. The big question in the Mediterranean is whether the Russians will move into the Algerian naval base at Mers-el-Kebir, which the French evacuated last month; it is only 315 miles east of Gibraltar. Russians have also used their influence with the Arabs to set up secret stockpiles of spare parts within trucking distance of Arab ports...
Nothing quite so symbolized the total violence of the Algerian revolution as the barricades of cobblestones and sandbags from which its bloodiest battles were fought against France. Last week the barricades were back again. Soldiers and police armed with submachine guns blocked all highways. Foreign diplomats and newsmen were ordered to keep off the roads and stay close to Algiers. Colonel Tahar Zbiri, the army chief of staff, was in hiding after attempting a coup, and with him had gone many of Algeria's top officers. Troops loyal to President Houari Boumediene combed the snow-covered mountain range where...
...over. Zbiri, still at large, commands the loyalties of a good many of Algeria's military men. Also behind him are the country's Berber minority, the revolutionary zealots who despise Boumediene's practical technocrats and, in all probability, the 200,000 members of the Algerian General Workers Union, whose power Boumediene has systematically underminded...
...Expatriates often hear such remarks as: "We think the general is being too tough on you, and we don't all share his feelings." Such remarks are usually passed late at night in back alleys, and it is difficult to tell whether or not the speaker is an Algerian...