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S.A.O. terrorists continued to take Moslem lives in Oran and Algiers. Though badly demoralized by the arrest of its commander in chief, Raoul Salan, the organization stepped up its campaign to keep Europeans from fleeing the country. blew up two airliners at Algiers' Maison Blanche airport; systematically sabotaging buildings and records needed by a future Algerian government, they wrecked a maternity clinic, government offices, three banks and a newspaper plant...
...Moslem impatience notwithstanding, the tide had turned. Last week, for the first time, the S.A.O. was finally outgunned and outmaneuvered by tough, determined French troops...
Determined to smash Salan's army, De Gaulle earlier last week flew in 5,000 additional troops to S.A.O.-dominated Oran, named Air Force General Michel Fourquet to succeed Ailleret as commander in chief. Hard-hitting Gaullist Fourquet set out to restore order before restive Moslem mobs got out of control in Oran and Algiers...
...parliamentary elections. His point: chances for a Gaullist sweep were now at their peak but would progressively decline in the months to come as the nation faced such issues as wages and prices, European political organization, nuclear policy-and touchiest of all-the voting of funds to an independent, Moslem-run Algeria...
...refused to allow my men to fire on French conscripts." With the defection of a "good friend" like Boualem, the Secret Army must abandon what little hope it had of setting up "insurrectional zones" in the Moslem countryside. Its fury, as before, will be limited to the big coastal cities like Algiers, where last week Secret Army terrorists committed a particularly senseless act of brutality by invading a Moslem hospital for tuberculars, gunning down 17 patients in bed or in flight, and then dynamiting a wing of the building...