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...under attack by extremists on both sides. The latest threat came from Algeria's Army of Liberation, which has grown increasingly intolerant both of its own moderate government leaders and of what it considers France's tardiness in quelling the Secret Army Organization. In Tunis last week, Algerian army leaders defiantly opened their own information office, started issuing communiqués charging that France has violated the peace agreement. In a challenge aimed as much at their own government as that of Charles de Gaulle, the restive army leaders declared ominously: "We warn the French authorities one last...
...Oran and Algiers. Though badly demoralized by the arrest of its commander in chief, Raoul Salan, the organization stepped up its campaign to keep Europeans from fleeing the country. blew up two airliners at Algiers' Maison Blanche airport; systematically sabotaging buildings and records needed by a future Algerian government, they wrecked a maternity clinic, government offices, three banks and a newspaper plant...
...with Ferrandi by helicopter to Reghai'a, French military headquarters 20 miles from town, where the S.A.O. chief huddled bleakly on a bench between two gendarmes. There he was spotted by an old comrade-in-arms, loyal Gaullist Gen eral Charles Ailleret, who was relieved last week as Algerian commander in chief. "You know who I am," barked Ailleret. "You are responsible for all the crimes committed by the S.A.O. in your name." Clenching and unclenching his hands, Salan stared silently at the floor...
Ailleret raced to Le Rocher Noir, the coastal fortress that houses the French and Provisional Algerian administrations, confirmed Salan's capture to newly appointed High Commissioner Christian Fouchet. As Fouchet called Charles de Gaulle to break the news, a military transport roared off the Reghaia's airstrip, taking the old soldier for the last time from the country for which Raoul Salan, after 44 years of fighting France's enemies, had himself become an enemy of France. Though he is already under sentence of death in absentia, by French law Salan must stand trial. Like ex-General...
Most encouraging portent so far is that in the Algerian bled (the hinterland), where 7,000,000 of the country's 9,000,000 Moslems live, the vast majority are cooperating peacefully with the French army and their own leaders to prepare for independence. At Rhoufi, only a few miles from the spot where the Algerian rebellion broke out seven years ago, a veteran French administrator declared last week: "It's almost too good to be true...