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Much of the Salan story's vivid reporting of the look and feel of Algeria during its ugly three-way war is the work of TIME Correspondent Edward Behr. 35, who was educated in Paris, London, and Cambridge, served in the British army in India, and worked for Reuters. For the past four years, he has covered Algeria and the rest of North Africa for TIME. This week W. W. Norton publishes Behr's The Algerian Problem ($4.50). The book recently appeared in England, where both the Manchester Guardian and the London Sunday Times praised...
Plastic Applause. By day. Algiers appears as peaceful as any city of France, reported TIME Correspondent Edward Behr. After sunset, the streets resound to the powerful explosion of plastic bombs. Some nights there may be only three or four; once last week there were 19. When European audiences in movie houses hear the muffled roar of a distant bomb, they break into applause. The victims of the explosions are Moslem shopkeepers. Frenchmen who are considered to be liberals or Gaullists. or policemen who appear to be searching too hard for European terrorists...
...Bizerte last week, as French and Tunisian troops observed an uneasy ceasefire, they were burying the dead. On the scene, TIME Correspondent Edward Behr reported...
...past three years, the second home of TIME Paris correspondent Edward Behr has been Algeria, which he has visited 45 times while logging a total of 14 months on the spot covering the Algerian war. He has patrolled with French paratroopers in the rugged Kabylia mountains, has crossed and recrossed the Sahara by Jeep, truck and light plane, turning up at times in spots so remote that they had never been seen before by anyone but nomads and the French camel corps. An Englishman who grew up in Paris speaking accentless French (he was a major in the British army...
...Algeria, crossing desert tracks so rough that their station wagon had 29 punctures; they also hippety-hopped over the countryside in a rented plane. The result of their travels is the eight pages of Boulat's color pictures of Algeria in this week's TIME. When Behr had finished filing a story to accompany the pictures of this harshly beautiful land, he had to rush back to Algeria. The rebellious army generals had made it front page news again...