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...revolt as an outbreak of "banditry." But as farmhouses of European settlers went up in flames, troop convoys were ambushed in the deep valleys of the Aurès range, and guerrillas were trained and organized in the inaccessible crags of Kabylia, the French struck back. They blew up Moslem villages, made wholesale arrests, created empty regions known as zones interdites, where anything that moved was shot...
...F.L.N. has recognized that even after independence it will have to live with France. In Algeria, F.L.N. responsables were doing a remarkable job of keeping the mobs from violent reprisals against the colons. The F.L.N. even found it necessary to issue a reassuring press release pointing out that the Moslem side was really gaining advantages in the terms of what is already called the "sad peace." Skyward Guns. In the deserted summer resort of Evian-les-Bains on the Franco-Swiss border, the last details of the sad peace were being worked...
...Oran, the two biggest cities, were solidly in S.A.O. hands. Algiers, with 800,000 people, resounded night and day to the thud of plastic bombs and the rattle of submachine guns; the staccato European war cry of Al-gé-rie Fran-çaise! was answered by the shrill Moslem incantation of "Yn! Yu! Yu!" Oran, a city facing the sea but turned inward on itself like a snail, was once called "the capital of boredom." Now its 400,000 people (half European, half Moslem) were bored only with mutual slaughter. The Oran prefect was hiding at the center...
...ambitious, virulently anti-Moslem Jana Sangh Party made spotty gains in state legislatures, increased its parliamentary strength from six seats...
...Show the World. So far, the F.L.N., has maintained control in the casbahs, preventing any wild outpouring of Moslem mobs. But last week discipline was beginning to slip. Excited by the daytime fasting required by the month-long celebration of Ramadan, infuriated by bombings and indiscriminate killing, the Moslems were beginning to strike back with mass violence of their own. That is precisely the aim of the S.A.O., which hopes to goad the Moslems into a full-scale racial war; in that event the S.A.O. feels confident that the French army will side with the Europeans. The terrorists also hope...