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...Algerian coast one day last week a Russian Ilyushin 18 turboprop airliner cruised along in the early afternoon sunshine. Alone in the blue skies at 28,000 ft., it had aboard the Soviets' figurehead of state, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Leonid Brezhnev, 54, on his way to visit Guinea via a stopover in Morocco. At precisely 2:18 p.m. the Ilyushin got company...
...stolidly pursued his course, and for eight minutes the jets merely kept pace. Then, suddenly, one of them whooshed ahead, turned and opened fire in the Russian plane's path. "International banditry," howled Moscow's pro test to France. The Ilyushin had been 82 miles off the Algerian coast at the time of the incident, declared the Russians. It had cleared properly with Algiers control, cried Moscow: the attack had been entirely unprovoked...
...proper course? Reason for the intercept and the warning shots across the bow was that the Ilyushin had strayed inside what the French have marked off as their 80-mile "zone of responsibility" off Algeria. There the embattled French, trying to prevent infiltration of arms and men to the Algerian rebels, insist on the reserve right to control air and sea traffic. Furthermore, said the French, custom had been violated by the Russians' failure to give notification of the presence aboard the aircraft of a high personage. Whatever the merits of the case, France at week...
...solution of the tortured "Algerian problem" has always largely turned upon the question: What is to happen to the 1,000,000 Europeans living among Algeria's 9,000,000 Moslems? In Paris last week a prestigious study group of French diplomats, economists and high civil servants provided a grim if unofficial answer: "Hundreds of thousands" will have to leave...
...Justice, the paratroop colonels made no apologies. Shaven-skulled Colonel Auguste Broizat, a veteran of Indo-China, said firmly that he not only "refused to fire on the crowd," but had ordered that his men stay where they were and "avoid all provocations." After the police massacre, Broizat told Algerian Commander in Chief General Maurice Challe bitterly: "Here is the result of our government's policy, and this is just the beginning." According to Broizat, Challe replied, "Don't tell me. I feel even more strongly about it than...