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...Organization. At Salan's signal, pied-noir demonstrators rush from their homes shouting "De Gaulle to the gallows!" and hammer out on dishpans the deafening rhythm of "Al-g�-rie Fran-caise!" Salan's nod is sufficient to explode plastic bombs* under the bed of a Gaullist security chief in Oran or on the doorstep of a police inspector in Algiers. After each deed, Salan's men boast: "The S.A.O. strikes when it wants, how it wants, where it wants...
...floor of a 15-story building that can be reached only by taking two separate elevators and passing through a complicated maze of locked and guarded doors. The prefect of Algiers and his staff dodge from one hiding place to another, frequently changing cars and routes. The top Gaullist administrators have abandoned Algiers and huddle together at Le Rocher Noir, 25 miles away, behind three rings of barbed wire, defended by armored cars. S.A.O. spies are everywhere. Last fall, the French government sent 200 more policemen to Algiers; shortly after they arrived, they found that the S.A.O. had a complete...
Counted Blessings. De Gaulle's personal popularity, once unquestioned, has obviously dropped over the past year. But, just as obviously, no one else's popularity has shown any startling rise. In his year-end speech, De Gaulle once again asked the French to count their Gaullist blessings-a far more stable government, far fewer strikes...
...sufficient to last only a few days, after which any putsch would theoretically be "asphyxiated." Disaffection has gradually spread from the 400,000-man force in Algeria to the French army in France and in West Germany, where two divisions recently returned from Algeria have become hotbeds of anti-Gaullist intrigue...
...people are tired of fighting, the army is tired of retreat," he said. Gaullist tactics aimed at ending the politically divisive Algerian war have not yet improved matters. "Peace isn't much nearer, and the tragedy most certainly is," he said...