Word: mitidja
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mustache?gave a TV interview to a U.S. broadcasting team without police interference. Salan's whereabouts are shrouded in mystery: on the same day he has been reported in Belgium and at Algiers' Otomatic cafe, an S.A.O. hangout. When he first went underground, he was hidden in the fertile Mitidja plain south of Algiers, whose well-to-do pied-noir farmers...
...Front National Français poured in from the nearby slums to stand guard under their black Celtic crosses or to drill in the makeshift uniforms of the territorial army, a sort of Algerian home guard. Truckloads of armed peasants had rushed in from the rich plain of Mitidja. And there were the girls of all of them, serving as nurses or waitresses or human chains to pass stones to the barricades, but, nevertheless, wearing high heels, tight skirts and floppy sweaters...
...power to the test, the rebel leaders, worsted in armed conflict in the hills, issued a deadly new order: concentrate on killing civilians. Within six weeks, rebel units in the field had killed, wounded or kidnaped 363 civilians-most of them hard-working small farmers in the Mitidja Plain around Algiers...
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