Word: algerias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CURT PRENDERGAST, TIME'S Paris bureau chief for the past eight years, has been a professional De Gaulle watcher for even longer. He has been covering the general's troubles and triumphs ever since 1953-and from Algeria to Colombey-les-deux-Eglises, the job was never tougher than it was last week...
...first time was in 1940, when, an unknown brigadier general, he climbed into a Royal Air Force plane near Bordeaux and escaped to England, where he organized the Free French forces that ultimately helped free his occupied homeland. The second was in 1958, when the colons and paratroopers in Algeria rose in revolt. But now, a decade after his second call to service, France is caught up in almost as much chaos as?and perhaps more than?when De Gaulle came to power in 1958. The question is, Can De Gaulle once again save France?this time from himself...
...Switzerland, Laos, Burma, Indonesia, India, Ceylon, Japan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Malaysia, Italy, Belgium, Finland, Austria. In addition, other locales in Algeria, Rumania, Egypt and Tanzania were mentioned...
...Gaulle and his state-owned radio-television network. Nonetheless, there was not much real fear of disorderly protests. "The French are awfully good at maintaining order when they want to," said a U.S. official, "and we think they'll want to." The capital's riot cops?the Algeria-honed Compagnie Republicaine de Securite?are among the best anywhere. Moreover, the Quai d'Orsay's chief Asia expert, Etienne Manac'h, is both reliable and impartial in his dealings with foreign diplomats...
...most dangerous enemy is Colonel Tahar Zbiri, who was chief of staff until December, when he led an abortive coup to overthrow Boumediene. Still at large, Zbiri is a socialist zealot who resented the President's efforts to save Algeria's floundering economy by replacing revolutionaries with technocrats. Algeria's labor unionists are also at odds with Boumediene: they consider him not Marxist enough and blame him for an unemployment of 5,000,000, nearly half the work force. The small Algerian middle class hates Boumediene for dispossessing it from its once privileged position. And then...