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...drive for independence began Nov. 1, 1954, All Saints' Day, when scattered bands of Algerian Moslems struck at 30 different points across the land, killing four French soldiers and two policemen...
...Moslems. It sparked two mutinies in the French army, destroyed the French Fourth Republic, brought to power the Fifth Republic of President Charles de Gaulle, and gravely threatened his regime, too. Last week the war was virtually over. At his headquarters in Tunis, Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda of the Algerian F.L.N. (Front de Libération Nationale) declared: "It is now possible to say that the Algerian revolution has triumphed and has attained the aims for which it fought." Despite these words, there was little sense of triumph beneath the outward forms of jubilation. The big fact about the Algerian cease...
Yazid's mild jest did not obscure the real importance of the occasion. In a single night he had driven 500 miles to Tunis from the Libyan capital of Tripoli, where the Algerian National Revolutionary Council had been in session, to tell waiting newsmen of the cease-fire agreement with France. By an overwhelming vote, the council empowered Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda to conclude the agreement as he saw fit, without the need of obtaining further council approval...
...Casual Stroll. These final hurdles would undoubtedly be overcome this week at yet another meeting of the weary negotiation teams, headed by F.L.N. Vice Premier Belkacem Krim and De Gaulle's Algerian Affairs Minister Louís Joxe. But the daily bloodbath in Algeria mocked the long-delayed promise of peace. The death toll in 1962 has mounted to 1,400. In Algiers, Moslem gunmen shot dead a taxi driver known to be an S.A.O. leader. Within 15 minutes, bands of S.A.O. killers appeared at populous street corners and gunned down 35 Moslem passersby. Three other S.A.O. gunmen last...
...role of the French police in the Algerian war has not attracted much public attention until recently. Throughout the War, it is true, French intellectuals have protested against police torture and brutality in dealing with Moslem nationalists; two years ago, Sartre, Beauvoir and one hundred nineteen other writers, teachers and professional people sent a celebrated letter to de Gaulle. And an expose of actual police torture techniques, Le Gangrene, shocked the public. The efforts of a few French and Algerian lawyers to defend Moslems against charges "confessed" to under torture have also attracted support...