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Chief opposition came not from Frenchmen but from Algerian nationalists, who seemed to have moved their rebellion to Metropolitan France for the occasion. In a week of sabotage and terrorism, F.L.N. agents shot up soldiers and policemen, blew up gas tanks and prefectures, booby-trapped an army tank bound for Algeria. Information Minister Jacques Soustelle, who is bitterly hated by the rebels as the chief political mentor of the Algerian colons, barely escaped assassination when an Algerian thrust a revolver through the rear window of his Citroën as it stopped for a red light in the heart...
...vast majority of Frenchmen there seemed little choice. Either they would go on to De Gaulle's new constitution, or they would go back to governmental chaos. Having had plenty of the latter, an estimated 60-70% will probably cast their votes for the constitution...
...bring France and Moslem Algerians into a decent, humane relationship. Though he was twice jailed by the French and called a salaud (dirty bum) by a right-wing Deputy when he was a member of the French Constituent Assembly, he once wrote: "Algeria is a French land. We are Frenchmen with a personal Moslem status...
...Hustings. Aware that the phrase "Algerian-type election" has long been a byword for fraud, the Gaullists are making every effort to assure an honest count, have sent hundreds of volunteer election commissioners from France to administer the balloting. For the first time, De Gaulle has allowed Moslems and Frenchmen to vote on a single list, opened the voting to Moslem women...
...women paid due homage to the "West Texas Fair," took in the livestock and the rodeo, then moved eagerly to the midway. The tip built up in front of the girlie shows (one Negro, one white), and their talker began his pitch: "This, folks, is Jody, who taught those Frenchmen in Paris something about the great American art of the striptease." The crowd rolled in at six bits a head. "Shake it, gal!" they yelled, happily ignorant that Dancer Anita Lopez was a bewigged male. On down the back end (the sideshows) of the carny, they plunked their dimes down...