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...five years or more-comparison with any part of California except Death Valley seems ridiculous. The political comparison is not so farfetched. The hope that De Gaulle has held out to war-weary Algeria in his "Constantine Plan" (TIME, Oct. 13) depends on his assurances to the poor Moslem population that they have a prosperous future to share in economic and political equality with Metropolitan Frenchmen. Without the wealth of the Sahara-and the power it could furnish Algeria-the Constantine Plan would be an intolerable financial burden on France, and an unredeemable promise. Says Jacques Soustelle: "It is here...
...come until 1955, when ex-Premier Pierre Mendès-France named him Governor General of Algeria. It was a fateful appointment for Soustelle and for France. Soustelle went to Algeria a "liberal," and he vastly annoyed Algeria's European settlers by trying to head off the simmering Moslem revolt with agrarian reform and more government jobs for Moslems. But after August 1955, when a band of Algerian rebels murdered and mutilated scores of French civilians in the mining town of El Alia, Soustelle turned implacably hostile toward negotiations with the rebel F.L.N., called for all-out military suppression...
Thus far the Moslems have been strictly law-abiding-a fact that worries some cops more than minor outbreaks of violence. "It's getting worse every day," says a Los Angeles police official, "and I only wish I knew what it's going to take to light the fuse." The Moslems themselves talk of 1970 as their DDay, expansively predict that before that time the big white nations will have eliminated each other with atomic warfare and Black Africa will stand unchallenged. Says Chicago Urban League's Negro Director Edwin C. Berry: "A guy like this Moslem...
Lebanon, half Christian and half Moslem, is a small, well-to-do nation that owes its prosperity to the common realization that the quarrels which divide it are bad for business and impossible to resolve. Almost torn apart by feuds a year ago until U.S. troops intervened, Lebanon still remembers its differences...
Pianist Jamal was born plain Fritz Jones 29 years ago in Pittsburgh. He changed his name legally in 1950, after he became a Moslem. Says he mystically: "When my people were brought over here from Asia and Africa, they were given various names, such as Jones and Smith. I haven't adopted a name. It's a part of my ancestral background and heritage: I have re-established my original name. I have gone back to my own vine and fig tree...