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Chief opposition came not from Frenchmen but from Algerian nationalists, who seemed to have moved their rebellion to Metropolitan France for the occasion. In a week of sabotage and terrorism, F.L.N. agents shot up soldiers and policemen, blew up gas tanks and prefectures, booby-trapped an army tank bound for Algeria. Information Minister Jacques Soustelle, who is bitterly hated by the rebels as the chief political mentor of the Algerian colons, barely escaped assassination when an Algerian thrust a revolver through the rear window of his Citroën as it stopped for a red light in the heart...
Outside the house in Cairo hung a strange new flag: two vertical bars, green and white, with a red crescent and star in the center. Inside, a large, solemn-faced man with luminous brown eyes faced 100 reporters. "In the name of the Algerian people," Ferhat Abbas, 58, announced the formation of a "government-in-exile" for the new Algerian republic "which considers itself in a state of war with France." Egypt's Nasser quickly hailed the "blessed step," and within 24 hours, Iraq, Yemen and Libya had recognized the nation. More reluctantly, since they fear repercussions from France...
...this hostile environment De Gaulle made no public appearances. Instead, he spent two days consulting with local dignitaries-including a number of Moslems, whose names were kept secret to protect them from rebel reprisals. Then, bone tired, he canceled plans for a tour of the Algerian interior and set off for Paris. On the day of his departure his recorded voice boomed out over Radio Algiers, promising neither the right to independence to Algerian Arabs nor the prospect of "integration" with France to the French Algerian colons. A yes vote on his constitution, declared De Gaulle, "will mean...
Last week Algerian rebels even threatened to sabotage French ships and planes everywhere, pointedly warned foreigners to cancel their reservations. "How far is the F.L.N. willing to go?" a TIME correspondent in Rabat asked F.L.N. Leader Abdelhamid Mahri...
...risks. Signing up for an additional year's service, he voluntarily took command of a small forest encampment at El Hourane, a job that no one else wanted because the duty was both dull and dangerous. Early in February this year, the risks caught up with him. Algerian rebels, disguised in the Spahi uniform of Dubos' troopers, overran the El Hourane post, carried Olivier Dubos and 17 of his men into captivity in the Kabylia mountains...