Word: gafsa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rest & Recuperation. According to the French, Bourguiba not only permits the F.L.N. to raid Algeria from Tunisian bases, but also lets the rebels maintain five hospitals, five arms depots and a network of training camps in such towns as Béja, Gafsa and Souk-el-Arba. All F.L.N. recruits, declare the French, are sent to Tunisia for two months' basic training; currently French intelligence estimates the number of F.L.N. troops in Tunisia at from...
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...