Word: fellagha
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...allowed to live in France, but was supposed to stay out of Paris. Actually, in recent weeks, Bourguiba has spent much time in Paris, and the French government has winked at it. At the Hotel Continental, where Bourguiba stayed, the help referred to him in whispers as le grand fellagha. His moderate counsels have unified his people. Through all the years of French bad faith and broken promises, he held Tunisian nationalists together, so that the French were unable to divide them (as in Morocco) or the Communists seriously to infiltrate them...
...Help You." Operation Fellagha began early last week in the Beylical Palace in Carthage, where 44 Tunisians and 22 French officers stood before His Highness Sidi Mohammed el Amin, the mustachioed monarch of Tunis, and explained their plan. Twenty-two teams, composed of two Tunisians and one Frenchman, would go into the hills to offer amnesty to the fellaghas. Each jellagha who accepted would get a formal certificate of absolution, bearing his thumbprint to prevent chicanery; a stub, also with thumbprint, would be retained by the government. "Go, my dear children," blessed the Bey of Tunis. "May God help...
Brigands & Patriots. All over Tunisia, similar parleys went on. Handsome Lazar Shraiti, 36, the most famous of all the fellagha chiefs, marched into Gafsa after nearly three years of outlawry, turned over 126 men and 112 rifles and carbines to the French, then went back to contact the hundreds of other fellaghas under his command. In his tiny stone hideout, he told TIME Correspondent William McHale, "I am a civilian...
...calm heroics-Jean Paul Desparnets. 41. Raised in North Africa, where his father taught Arabic, Desparnets goes around unarmed in an open jeep. He is a career civil servant of France, and has served with U.N. commissions in the U.S. and Peru. Almost daily he receives notes from the fellagha. The latest read: "Take back those soldiers you're sending here. They are only girls...
...will eat them for breakfast." The colons and the troops see the fellagha signaling at night, with flashlights from the tops of hills. "The flick of a burnoose, the beating of a donkey may mean something-who knows?" Desparnets says. "All a fellagh has to do is drop his gun, and zut, he becomes a plain Arab named Mohammed. It's not hard for them." The fellagha never attack unless certain of victory. In combat with anything like equal numbers, they leave four men behind as a suicide force to protect their fleeing leader...