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...begin a general release of prisoners, the F.L.N. freeing some 400 captive French soldiers, the French some 5,000 F.L.N. soldiers. De Gaulle's government will then proclaim a series of amnesties covering those sentenced or awaiting judgment for political crimes ranging from nonviolent acts to murder. All Moslem prisoners under death sentence have already been transferred from Algerian to French jails to prevent European terrorists from breaking into the prisons and killing them...
...Nominations to Algeria's "Provisional Executive" will be made by the French government and the F.L.N. No top-ranking members of the F.L.N. will be included, but a number of Moslem lawyers, civil servants and professional men who have never hidden their nationalist sympathies are expected to serve. De Gaulle's government concedes that the nomination of Europeans to the executive may be difficult because the vast majority hate and fear the F.L.N., and that "outsiders," i.e., Metropolitan Frenchmen, may have to be brought in. The specific tasks of the Provisional Executive will...
Admiration of the Communists' guile does not, of course, preclude hatred of the Soviets. The O.A.S. condemns de Gaulle's inability or unwillingness to perceive the immanence of Communism it sees in the Moslem uprisings. Precisely because the O.A.S. despises the Algerians, it claims that Communist influence and manipulation are the driving force of the revolution that has swept all North Africa...
...task of policing the cease-fire will gradually be turned over by the French-army in Algeria to a new Force Locale, made up of 80% Moslem, 20% French troops...
Slow Death. As peace appeared ever closer, the S.A.O. seemed ever more desperately determined to prevent it. During a single morning last week, 54 S.A.O. plastic bombs exploded in the Moslem quarter of Oran, burying families in the debris of tumbled tenements. The French army, torn between loyalty to De Gaulle and reluctance to give up Algeria, continued to show convenient blindness toward S.A.O. activities: Jeeploads of terrorists openly wore army-type uniforms and S.A.O. armbands. But there were signs, too, that the army was becoming increasingly disgusted with the S.A.O...