Word: oran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...violence was not all on one side. Moslem terrorists in Oran raped a French girl and cut her escort's throat. They killed a French prison guard, a Jewish taxi driver, a Moslem with pro-French sympathies, and tossed a grenade in a Constantine bar, wounding 16. F.L.N. men raided a factory and killed four Europeans, broke in on a wedding and mowed down four guests...
...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 is to carry out its promise to bring Moslems into the civil service and administrative jobs, "new jobs will have to be found for tens...
...rebel leaders meeting in hurried conferences in Tunis last week, the referendum was nearly as stunning as to the frightened Europeans in Algeria. Most startling was the undeniable popularity of provisional Premier Ferhat Abbas, whose name became a rallying cry to the suddenly awakened Moslems in Algiers and Oran...
...even find consolation in the 22% of the French voters who abstained. In the previous referendum, abstentions ran to 15%, and the balance can be accounted for by bad weather and local issues. But the abstentions in Algeria were another matter. In the big cities of Algiers and Oran, hundreds of thousands of Moslems stayed stubbornly at home in obedience to the orders of Ferhat Abbas and the rebel F.L.N. Out in the countryside, many Moslems who did vote had to be rounded up by the army and trucked to the polls. "There were two referendums," said a Moslem...
...Silent Enigma. To the Moslems who two weeks ago stormed through the big cities of Algiers, Oran and Bone shouting their support of the F.L.N. rebels, De Gaulle cried, "Yes, we are proposing peace! We are ready at any time to receive the delegates of the people who are fighting us." In the talks with the F.L.N. rebels, which collapsed at Melun last summer, De Gaulle had insisted on discussing only the conditions of a ceasefire, and the rebels were not interested. Now he was ready to talk, "especially with the leaders of the rebellion," about "all the conditions under...