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Intent on making lively the arrival of France's Premier Michel Debré in Algeria, six men sat around a table in an Algerian village tinkering with the timing device of a bomb. The bomb exploded and the six were blown to bits...
...Tunisia 10,000 Algerian fellaghas have been training for months in full view of the French army across the border. Come spring, the French fear, the fellaghas will be moving across the border with the express intent of disrupting the elections. Last week the F.L.N. announced that it would begin accepting "foreign volunteers." The Red Chinese have a standing offer to supply the Algerian rebels with "technicians" and money, but in actuality, it is unlikely that the F.L.N. expects to accept more than token contributions. More likely, the rebels, who have apparently given up hope of extracting concessions from...
Renewed hard fighting seemed to be the next step. The French have stopped issuing accurate regular reports of military activity, but rebel bombs have been exploding in Algerian towns. On the main highway out of Algiers, four Frenchmen were kidnaped last week, and four more were mowed down in an ambush in the center of Affreville, just 44 miles from the capital. Reshuffling the top command, the F.L.N. installed a tough, 28-year-old guerrilla with the nom de guerre of Houari Boumedienne as rebel army chief of staff...
...have begun rapid recoveries. In
Paris, prices are down, but the reasons have little to do with Wall
Street. The confidence of investors was badly shaken by the resignation
of Finance Minister Antoine Pinay (TIME. Jan. 25), has been further
weakened by the slow progress in ending the Algerian crisis.
...Latin America's first President to recognize De Gaulle's Free French government; after his term ended, he exiled himself to France, stayed there eight years before returning for Peru's 1956 election and his second term. In office this time, he supported France's Algerian policy in the U.N. De Gaulle sees Peru as a diplomatic lever to open doors in South America for his "third world force"-a concept that, in the words of Paris' Le Monde, includes "the affinity between European and South American countries in their common desire...