Word: oran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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S.A.O. killers went on to bomb unemployed Moslems queuing for relief at a social-security office and to shell a Moslem cafe with mortar fire. In Oran, where tough General Joseph Katz delayed an all-out offensive against the S.A.O. while awaiting additional French troops, Secret Army snipers fired on Moslems from the rooftops; European householders cheered...
S.A.O. terrorists continued to take Moslem lives in Oran and Algiers. Though badly demoralized by the arrest of its commander in chief, Raoul Salan, the organization stepped up its campaign to keep Europeans from fleeing the country. blew up two airliners at Algiers' Maison Blanche airport; systematically sabotaging buildings and records needed by a future Algerian government, they wrecked a maternity clinic, government offices, three banks and a newspaper plant...
...Most Urgent Duty." In Oran, terrorists' Jeeps and commandos with S.A.O. emblazoned on their helmets have been forced off the streets, which they call their "last bastion" and virtually controlled until last week. Commandeering Oran's five tallest buildings, French army machine-gunners gained the upper hand in the city's rooftop war. In Algiers. French patrols backed by armored cars and helicopters tirelessly stalked the downtown area with orders to shoot terrorists on sight. The army has been heavily reinforced: in Oran alone there are now 12,000 French troops, and last week the first units...
...French Lorraine bomber group. He has been a staunch Gaullist ever since. Fourquet was an air force brigadier in Algeria a year ago at the time of the Generals Revolt. To make clear his loyalty, he painted a huge cross of Lorraine on his personal aircraft. Shuttling busily between Oran and Algiers in the fortnight since he was appointed commander in chief in Algeria, Fourquet has devised a flexible strategy aimed at breaking up S.A.O. units and driving them into hiding in the countryside. He is also counting on the fact that the S.A.O. is gradually but surely losing...
Made in Algiers, the recording reproduced with chilling immediacy the crackle of guns as French soldiers mowed down unarmed Europeans on Oran's streets, the moans of the wounded and dying, the desperate, unheeded cries of French officers commanding their troops to cease fire...