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...those refugees who do arrive, France is proving a cheerless asylum. A year ago. Jean Clement, 62, owned a 600-acre farm in Algeria. Today he is a grocer in Montpellier on the verge of bankruptcy. Complaining that his store is boycotted because he is a pied-noir (European of Algeria), Clement says angrily: "My father was killed at Verdun. I helped liberate France in 1944. I'm as good a Frenchman as anyone in Montpellier, but the animosity of the local population is terrible...
...from French possession to independence (an estimated three to six months), Algeria will be governed by a twelve-man Provisional Executive headed by Moslem Businessman Abderrahmane Fares, 50, released only last month from Fresnes prison, outside Paris. A helicopter touched down last week at the administrative center of Rocher Noir, 25 miles from Algiers, and out stepped Fares, a stooped, balding man in a rumpled grey suit, followed by his attractive French wife and his teen-age son and daughter (another son is a soldier with the F.L.N...
Fares told newsmen that he thought Rocher Noir a "delightful place" and that he had spent a beach holiday there when he was eleven years old. "But when I say it's delightful," he added. "I don't mean we intend to stay here an eternity. I intend going into Algiers as soon as possible. Algeria without Algiers, is nothing." Fares, like the other members of the Executive, knows he is a priority target for the S.A.O. Dr. Jean Mannini. one of the three European members of the Executive, lost a leg in an F.L.N. attack...
...inhabitants, who are mostly of Spanish, Italian and Jewish origin), a district of dark, dingy bars and cafes interspersed with modern shops, movie theaters and banks. Huge apartment blocks climb the hills above the shoe and cigarette factories that employ many Moslem workers. Long a hotbed of pied-noir extremism, Bab-el-Oued produces leaders like ex-Cab Driver Jesus Giner, who swaggers about the Cafe des Trois Horloges with a posse of armed hoodlums and boasts, "Here, I make the law." On Thursday, the pieds-noirs of Bab-el-Oued ripped down the government's cease-fire posters...
...attention while one of their number orated that "abandonment" of Algeria was an illegal act. Algerian Affairs Minister Louis Joxe, showing the strain of the long negotiations at Evian. assured the chamber that the nationality of those Algerian residents who wanted to remain French citizens would be protected. Pied-noir Deputies from Algeria tried to howl him down, and chanted. "Treason! Treason! Treason...