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...Barricades. Events threw them against each other, and Lagaillarde always won. At Algiers University, where both studied law, he captured the presidency of the European Students Union from Popie. Lagaillarde was elected a Deputy to the National Assembly, served as a paratrooper in charge of "interrogating" Moslem suspects, emerged as the top man among the European activists. He personally led the January 1960 uprising in Algiers, fought a pitched battle with the police and raised the barricades against De Gaulle. Arrested and brought to trial in Paris, Lagaillarde fled to Spain, where, from the safety of Madrid, he now loudly...
...rebels-nearly the size of his own army. To some degree, Bourguiba is a captive in his own country. He must remain scrupulously polite to his guests, yet keep diplomatic channels open with France; he must reconcile his personal pro-Western feelings with his role as a fighter for Moslem unity and North African independence. He has enemies on either side: Egypt's Nasser sneers that Bourguiba is a Western stooge; Morocco's King Mohammed V was enraged last fall when Bourguiba recognized the independence of Mauritania, which the King insists is Moroccan territory...
Perhaps the most powerful religious force working for Nasser is Cairo's 1,000-year-old al-Azhar University, greatest center of higher learning in the Islamic world and seat of an "Islamic Missions City" that attracts students from every Moslem land. Recently, one Omar Salah walked all the way from Ghana to enroll at al-Azhar. It is some measure of Nasser's expectations that al-Azhar has already awarded scholarships to 2,000 Africans-as many Africans as are now studying in the whole...
...does not win independence, economic pressure will force the emigration of 100,000 Europeans. "This is such a cruel truth that neither the Fourth nor the Fifth Republic was able to look it in the face." Because of poor land and bad pay (the average yearly income of a Moslem farmer is only 3% of that of a European farmer), Moslems have fled the rural areas and now outnumber Europeans in every large city except Oran-which is only 51% European. In the cities, competition already is bitter for low-level jobs, and Moslems are winning it. If the government...
...Most of the Europeans were born in Algeria and have as much right as the Moslems to live where they were born, "but it is equally true that to maintain 1,000,000 Europeans there, France would have to use severe coercive measures to prevent Moslem progress...