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...France's antiquated food distribution system, under which nearly every vegetable or farm animal produced in France must be shipped to Paris' Les Halles market for sale or reshipment to the provinces. But the reform has been put off because of the cost of prosecuting the Algerian war. Last week embattled artichoke growers at St.-Pol-de-Leon dumped 800 tons of artichokes into a quarry and doused them with diesel oil in protest at the fall of the farm price of artichokes from 23? to ½? a lb-while French retailers were charging as much...
...space of barely four years, the twin dynamos of nationalist rebellion and oil discovery have produced a button-busting boom that no city in metropolitan France can match. Since 1956, population has doubled, is now approaching 1,000,000. The first whiff of prosperity came when France increased its Algerian army first to 200,000, then to 500,000 men to fight the F.L.N. rebels. Most of the new troops were reservists drawing far higher pay than the ordinary conscript rate, and produced unheard-of business for Algiers' bars, restaurants and shops. And with an army to supply, farmers...
...many new jobs opened up that any skilled workman among the Moslems could pick and choose from two or three openings. The Algerian cook who once counted herself lucky to get $20 a month started asking-and getting-$70 a month. Some 300,000 refugees poured into Algiers to escape the rebel F.L.N.; the city's growing economy absorbed them without missing a beat. In the spending splurge, rents went up-400% in some parts of the city. Simca auto sales jumped from 3,000 in 1954 to 14,500 in 1959, will hit 20,000 in 1960. Monoprix...
...Frenchmen the words "an Algerian election" have long served as satirical shorthand to describe a rigged vote, and Charles de Gaulle's first four elections in Algeria did little to change the time-honored meaning of the phrase. But for his fifth Algerian election, completed last week, De Gaulle's orders were strict: the French army was to put no pressure on Moslem voters; civilians were to run the polls and, where possible, the transportation to them. Last week De Gaulle had one result he was after: the first honest political profile of revolt-torn Algeria...
...vote suggested that most Algerians want peace and some tie to France. But it did not bring these ends visibly nearer. In pre-election raids, F.L.N. terrorists killed 17, including three candidates, in Algeria, plus one policeman and four civilians in Paris. And among Frenchmen as well as Algerians impatience for peace was mounting. In Toulouse, the Catholic, pro-Communist and independent unions have joined forces to demand immediate negotiations with the F.L.N. France's big Socialist Party is agitating for a ceasefire, and last week the potent National Students Union announced that it planned to resume its links...