Word: algerias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S Aug. 17 cover story on the Sahara is an enlightening and timely article. With the public support of the U.S., France could quell more quickly the fanatical, marauding minority in Algeria, and could concentrate on opening the riches of Algeria's Sahara for the entire population's, and the world's, benefit...
...President de Gaulle's ministers sat down in the big Salon des Portraits of the Elysées Palace, the pressures for a decision on Algeria were closing in on France. Operation Binoculars, the new military campaign to crush the rebels, was going slowly. Within the week President Eisenhower would arrive to hear what, if any, new solution De Gaulle had to settle the five-year war. "A climate of expectancy and uncertainty mixed with apprehension reigns," reported Le Monde. "The moment is coming when the game is either lost...
...four hours the ministers talked in the 90° heat. De Gaulle seemed to have decided on a plan, but gave his colleagues no inkling of what it was. Instead, he polled their views. A small group was for a harsh, unrelenting continuation of the war until Algeria could be integrated with France. At least three "liberals" urged independence for Algeria, even if it meant negotiating with the F.L.N. terrorists. But by far the greatest number of the 18 ministers favored the third alternative De Gaulle had put before them: an entirely new juridical status for Algeria, to be submitted...
Next morning De Gaulle took off in a twin-jet Caravelle for Algeria to sample the sentiments of the army. Pointedly skipping major cities (where he would have had to deal with intransigent French colons), he barnstormed army units throughout Algeria, hopping from place to place by helicopter and DC-3. He chatted with hundreds of officers and noncoms, ate all his meals with officers of colonel's rank or under. Often he would ask a local commander to come along for a confidential chat on a helicopter trip to the next stop. At Orleansville he had a long...
Wherever De Gaulle went, he found the army wanting a better shake for Algeria's Moslem population, but in no mood for Algerian independence or for giving up the fight. De Gaulle's room for maneuver was small. Extremists in the rebel F.L.N., in one of those unmistakable gestures meant to show that they had no intention of compromising, shot down 67-year-old Senator Cherif Benhabyles, an Algerian, in the streets of Vichy. A friend of F.L.N. Leader Ferhat Abbas, Benhabyles had offered to be a link in discussions with the French...