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...Date Fatidique and the days following the fateful date that brought thousands of Moslem terrorists out of the hills (TIME, Aug. 29), claimed the lives of 92 Frenchmen and at least 1,000 Moroccans. But that was only a beginning; last week the Berber tribes were still on the rampage in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains that straddle central Morocco. Shouting horsemen, brandishing antique guns, swept into Khouribga, where the French own phosphate mines, joined up with the Arab miners and hacked 203 people to death. Near by, Moroccan iron workers in the town of Ait Amar dragged their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Revolt & Revenge | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...French pressed on with what Premier Faure called "unrelenting repression." The fury of France's revenge was the measure of Frenchmen's alarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Revolt & Revenge | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...invested tens of billions of dollars in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. Its businessmen depend heavily on them for markets, raw materials and labor; its army taps their manpower. "Without North Africa," French imperialists say, "France would have no history in the 21st century. We should be 40 million Frenchmen facing twice that number of Germans. Another Portugal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Revolt & Revenge | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...told, La Date Fatidique claimed the lives of some 650 Arabs and 200 Frenchmen. French North Africa was in flames, and at week's end there was still no knowing how far the flames would spread, or how they would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH AFRICA: Revolt of the Arabs | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

With perfect timing, gangs of Algerian fellaghas (rebel bandits) raided French police stations and stormed the railroad station on the outskirts of Constantine (pop. 119,000). Fourteen Frenchmen standing at a bar were blown to bits by a bomb. The fellaghas called themselves "The Army of Liberation"; they were joined by urban terrorists known as "Death Battalions." The rebels swept through dozens of French villages, burning, looting and killing. Scores of French civilians were knifed or torn to pieces before the troops swung into action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH AFRICA: Revolt of the Arabs | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

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