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...nights in succession the Algerians held protest marches through downtown Paris and its industrial suburbs. By day, thousands of men, women and children staged demonstrations throughout northeastern France. As fast as they could catch them, police and security troops hauled the Algerians off to improvised detention centers, including a psychiatric hospital. At week's end, 15,000 had been bagged for what officials bragged was "the highest number of individual arrests ever made by the Paris police." By official count, the riots had taken five lives (all Algerian save one) and injured 60. Unofficially, the toll was reckoned three...
...Algerian Apartheid. The riots afforded disconcerting proof of the F.L.N.'s hold over France's Algerian population. Since 1947, when they were allowed to enter France freely as full citizens, they have flooded into the country in what French sociologists call "the immigration of hunger." Now 350,000 strong (200,000 in Paris alone), they are a vital segment of the labor force, do most of France's back-breaking labor from road building to stevedoring. They live in slums but earn union-scale wages-dazzling by Arab standards. As a result, they not only support...
Stanley F. Hoffman, speaking to a gathering in the Krikland House Junior Common Room on "The Fifth Republic and the Algerian war," warned of ever-increasing political instability in France because of growing discontent among rightist army elements...
...people are tired of fighting, the army is tired of retreat," he said. Gaullist tactics aimed at ending the politically divisive Algerian war have not yet improved matters. "Peace isn't much nearer, and the tragedy most certainly is," he said...
...Gaulle has gradually granted the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) every concession it has sought and more, but in return has sought and more, but in return has attempted to get the revolutionaries to grant him a few "extremely vague face-saving devices" so he can maintain the support of the French electorate, declared Hoffmann...