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Algiers, Bōne, Oran and the villages on the oil route to Hassi Messaoud are booming. From Algiers to Bordj-bou-Arréridj (a town in an area where the rebels are still active), the highway thunders with big trucks carrying pipeline equipment. A year ago, from Palestro onward-the rebel zone-the same road was almost deserted. The astonishing thing now is that mingling with the steady stream of trucks are families, both European and Moslem, in private cars, ignoring the charred remains of a car by the roadside and taking in stride the signs warning motorists...
Usually the tempo of violence increases just before a U.N. session, as the Algeri ans try to show how powerful they still are and the French try to show how effectively they are ''pacifying" the rebels. In the Massif of Bou Zegza, 40 miles southeast of Algiers, last week French troops saw a body of men in French uniforms and steel helmets approaching. As they drew near, the rebels in French clothing opened up with machine guns and grenades, killing 21 French, wounding 20 others. Angrily the French trotted up artillery, aircraft and no less than five generals...
...native Flemish and faithful reader . . . warmly congratulates you on your most interesting article about Flanders. It was both instructive and in excellent taste. A special tribute goes to Monsieur Pierre Bou lat, TIME'S photographer, for his magnificent work...