Word: oran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neither Moslem state nor an Arab state nor a French province." His idea is to create a highly decentralized Algerian state divided into 25 or so "cantons" on the model of Switzerland. Each would have its own local assembly and local administration. This would allow some, like those around Oran and Algiers, to have European majorities. Over the cantons would be a single legislative assembly of elected representatives from each canton. The Premier of the assembly would automatically become Vice Premier of the French government, assuring Algeria of a tie with France at the top. This future Algeria would...
Last week TIME Correspondent Stanley Karnow went to watch the battle of the harvest in Western Oran department, in an armed convoy of halftracks and trucks. In the area he visited, 80 of the 300 French farms had been burned in the past fortnight and 20 Europeans killed, some after torture. He visited one pillaged farm where vineyards had been torn up, buildings burned, 1,432 barrels of wine poured on the ground. Said the farmer: "I spent my life making this farm. My son and his son will spend theirs repairing the destruction-if they are still here...
...attacks went on. A ragtag rebel "army" of not more than 20,000 men was tying down a French force that will reach 330,000 men by month's end. Minister Resident Robert Lacoste declared a state of siege for two eastern Algerian departments, and in western Oran ordered all able-bodied men from 18 to 48 to report for militia duty...
...French believe he transmits his orders by radio to fighters in the Aures and Kabylie Mountains. Political chief for Algeria is 43-year-old Mohammed Khidir, 43, onetime French Deputy who got disgusted in 1946 and went underground, emerging only long enough to help Ben Bella rob the Oran post office of 3,000,000 francs. In both Morocco and Tunisia, Cairo's conspirators have been set back by the victory of the moderates, whom they seem to resent as bitterly as they do the French. Morocco's Cairo leader is Allal el Fassi, chief of the Istiqlal...
...highest yet. Premier Faure promised Governor Soustelle a 60,000-troop reinforcement. Rebels now had control of thousands of square miles, including a 50-mile strip of coastline. Out of fear of the rebels, or in support of them, the Moslem municipal councilors in the cities of Algiers, Oran, Constantine, Philippeville and Bone resigned, setting off a mass flight from office among 5,000 Moslem officials in Algeria...