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...summoned before the bar of the U.N. over Algeria. Every year some hapless people die in Algeria to dramatize what the debate is about. Last week, as the two embattled sides prepared their briefs. Premier Guy Mollet conferred worriedly in Paris on a new "declaration of intent," and Algerian nationalists staged a wave of terrorism to prove that France was far from having the situation in hand...
...department, and one of the few remaining Arab politicians who dare to show sympathy for the French. Three days later, in broad daylight on Algiers' busy and fashionable Rue Michelet, a nationalist gunman killed 74-year-old Amédée Froger, president of the Federation of Algerian Mayors and a militant leader of the French colons...
SAHARA DESERT RICHES will be exploited by France as result of new oil find under Algerian sands near Ouargla. On basis of three proven wells, estimates of pool run as high as 7 billion bbls. Under government administrator, state committees of French and Algerian representatives will set up development plan, centralize work of private and state-run companies now trying to tap desert's mineral wealth...
...including former Minister of Interior Jules Moch, demanded an extraordinary national party congress to review Mollet's record. The Radical Socialist Party headed by Pierre Mendès-France threatened to withdraw its 13 ministers from Mollet's coalition Cabinet unless he revised his Middle East and Algerian policies. The M.R.P. (Catholic) Party voted against Mollet in Parliament, forcing him to carry the issue (a minor budgetary item) on Communist votes. The meaning of these rebukes was plain to most Frenchmen: the politicians were turning their back on Mollet. This is the inevitable first step in an ancient...
...expected him to, proving himself an abler politician than he was given credit for being. He lasted largely because he has faced up to disagreeable tasks (e.g., drafting soldiers for Algeria) that few other French politicians relished. With gas rationing, unemployment and inflation building up, and no Algerian solution in sight, the problems facing the next Premier appear even less attractive. No obvious candidate has yet appeared, but ingenious solutions were being peddled, including a "Syndicat des anciens," or a Cabinet composed entirely of ex-Premiers (there have been 15 since...