Word: kabylia
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...past three years, the second home of TIME Paris correspondent Edward Behr has been Algeria, which he has visited 45 times while logging a total of 14 months on the spot covering the Algerian war. He has patrolled with French paratroopers in the rugged Kabylia mountains, has crossed and recrossed the Sahara by Jeep, truck and light plane, turning up at times in spots so remote that they had never been seen before by anyone but nomads and the French camel corps. An Englishman who grew up in Paris speaking accentless French (he was a major in the British army...
...France, 25, second son of eleven children of the Count de Paris and thus third in line of succession to the nonexistent throne of France; in a skirmish with Algerian rebels while serving as a second lieutenant with a French army infantry battalion; in Algeria's Kabylia Mountains...
...army headquarters in Kabylia, De Gaulle saw for himself the difficulties facing 25,000 French troops as they scour the thick scrub of mountain sides for rebels. He watched helicopters swoop low over a 3,400-square-mile waste of mountains "as full of holes as a Gruyère cheese," as one officer put it, and foot soldiers trudge up and down steep rocky inclines searching caves for the more than 10,000 terrorists hidden in the region...
...rebel combat commanders thrown up by Algeria's 4½-year-old civil war, none was more dreaded by French and Moslems alike than Amirouche Aït Hamouda, a peddler's son from the mountainous Berber stronghold of Kabylia. Barely into his 20s when he joined the underground, sinewy, long-legged Amirouche rose swiftly to the F.L.N.'s highest field rank, full "colonel," commanded a battle-hardened force of 5,000 men that made Kabylia the country's strongest bastion of rebel power...
...F.L.N., loud in its denunciation of such French "barbarities," was no less brutal to French soldiers, European settlers or their own reluctant Moslem countrymen. In May 1957, to discourage the villagers of Kabylia from rallying to the cause of Messali Hadj-who had long since become the F.L.N.'s bitter enemy-F.L.N. gunmen herded more than 300 peasants into the village of Kasba Mechta (TIME, June 10, 1957), and, when darkness fell, passed among them shooting and stabbing until all were dead. Moslems who persisted in active loyalty to France risked F.L.N. "Execution"-or being found alive...