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...were "strongly advised" to be off the streets by 8:30-and soon found that police, with newly issued bulletproof vests and three-foot staves for patrol duty, wasted no time repeating the advice to those who ignored the curfew. Algerians, who theoretically enjoy the same civil rights as Frenchmen, protested that they were subjected to a form of apartheid as virulent as South Africa's-and seizing on that mood, the F.L.N. organized the protest marches that ended in last week's bloody battles...
Concessions on independence, the Sahara, and control of the economically rich area where Frenchmen live, have all been made, he said, with France only demanding guarantee of protection for the French citizens there...
Last week the French police suddenly tossed El Campesino into jail. Almost at once, Spanish security police returned the compliment by rounding up 17 anti-Gaullist Frenchmen. Among them: Pierre Lagaillarde and his crony, Café Owner Joseph Ortiz, who has been condemned to death in absentia for his part in the barricades revolt, as well as a handful of ex-colonels involved in the generals' Putsch...
...Charles de Gaulle was generally getting tougher on the S.A.O., neither Paris nor Madrid was saying how long the prisoners would be held in jail. Possibly there might be a swap-although many Frenchmen were arguing that this would be a betrayal of France's longstanding tradition of offering political asylum to all comers...
Insistent Drum. Frenchmen can read more than history in Holy Week. They can read of a France beset far more sorely than she is today-bled white and depopulated by Napoleon's wars, split by divided loyalties and false dreams-and find consolation for today's troubles in the knowledge that within two generations, France was to rise again to lead the Continent. In one of the disconcerting asides to the reader with which he interrupts his narrative, Aragon writes: "Perhaps this book falsely, only apparently, turned toward the past, is only a great quest of the future...