Word: moslem
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When the rebellion began. Moslem nationalists were convinced that Algeria was a land of untold riches that France was picking clean. To their distress, many now see that France was sitting atop a poor country, not a rich...
Accordingly, what the Moslem peasants want is relatively modest: work instead of unemployment; schools instead of illiteracy; decent homes instead of huts built of cow dung and grass; above all, "an end to the bad old times." And if there is any clear F.L.N. policy for the future, it is in favor of these aims...
...Benkhedda is something of a surprise. Of medium height and medium age (42), diffident in manner, ascetic in habits, with his voice emotionlessly level and his expression forever veiled by dark glasses, Benkhedda resembles his nickname of M'sieu Tout le Monde (Mr. Every body). No flag-waving Moslem mob has ever ecstatically screamed his name. Ben khedda came up through the ranks of the F.L.N. as a machine-minded organizer...
...S.A.O. will wither away. If De Gaulle is wrong and the French army does not respect the ceasefire, then, says Benkhedda, the F.L.N. is ready to resume the struggle. Some F.L.N. leaders believe that the S.A.O. cannot be liquidated for several years and plan to organize virtually the entire Moslem population into a home guard to hold it in check...
...provided by French rule in Algeria. The great French civilizing mission brought many good things: an end to cholera, typhus and malaria, the elimination of tribal wars and devastating famines, the beginnings of industrialization. But France also took away the best lands the tribes had owned, and, as the Moslem population rocketed upward, the remaining flocks and inefficient farms could not keep pace...