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...past three years, the second home of TIME Paris correspondent Edward Behr has been Algeria, which he has visited 45 times while logging a total of 14 months on the spot covering the Algerian war. He has patrolled with French paratroopers in the rugged Kabylia mountains, has crossed and recrossed the Sahara by Jeep, truck and light plane, turning up at times in spots so remote that they had never been seen before by anyone but nomads and the French camel corps. An Englishman who grew up in Paris speaking accentless French (he was a major in the British army...
Challe, 55, the leader of the revolt, is a brilliant and trusted soldier of France. He was De Gaulle's choice two years ago to replace General Raoul Salan, who was fired as Algerian commander for his right-wing insurrectionary sympathies with settlers. The "Challe Plan." under which crack army units were removed from fixed bases and sent freewheeling about Algeria in search of rebels, had been a smashing success: from a high of 100,000 guerrillas when he took over, the rebels are now down to 15,000. In retirement for the past three months, Challe apparently plotted...
Under the "Constantine Plan," so named after the Algerian city where De Gaulle announced it in 1958, in the hopes of convincing Algeria's predominantly Moslem population that their best hopes lay in a continued association with France, Paris is investing $600 million a year in Algeria for roads, schools, housing and industry. An effective battle against disease has made Algeria's population grow by a substantial 2.5% a year (lower-class Moslems call penicillin "the drug that helps make babies"), keeping the average income constant and low. But the coming of oil and the Constantine Plan...
...could tell. All communications with the outside world were broken off, except for cryptic messages over Radio Algiers ("The palm tree is in the oasis") apparently meant for the right-wing underground in France. But the mutineers found small sympathy among mainland Frenchmen, who are heartily sick of the Algerian bloodshed and gave Charles de Gaulle an overwhelming mandate last January to negotiate a settlement on the basis of Algerian self-determination...
Overnight, the Algiers mutiny threatened to wreck the work of years. For unless he could decisively and quickly crush General Challe's revolt, Algerian independence was not De Gaulle's to promise or deliver...