Word: oran
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...Oran, the army had better luck. Troops searching an apartment block turned up a bearded man with curious credentials; after hours of interrogation, he admitted that he was ex-General Edmond Jouhaud, the S.A.O.'s No. 2 man. Jouhaud was promptly flown to France for the trial that might cost him his life...
...wind up the terrorism, De Gaulle told his Cabinet that the S.A.O. must be "pitilessly repressed" and ordered that the "insurrection" in Algiers and Oran be "broken by all possible means...
...would not be an easy job. In Algeria, the S.A.O. was obviously ready to blow up the truce if it possibly could. The European quarters of Algiers and Oran, the two biggest cities, were solidly in S.A.O. hands. Algiers, with 800,000 people, resounded night and day to the thud of plastic bombs and the rattle of submachine guns; the staccato European war cry of Al-gé-rie Fran-çaise! was answered by the shrill Moslem incantation of "Yn! Yu! Yu!" Oran, a city facing the sea but turned inward on itself like a snail, was once called...
...Oran, S.A.O. men disguised as French soldiers parked two cars with military markings on a crowded boulevard in the Moslem quarter. The cars, loaded with dynamite and 105-mm. shells, exploded in the late afternoon, littering the street with 76 dead and wounded Moslems. Moslems mourned their dead all night long, and the wailing was interrupted only at dawn-by three other heavy charges of plastic bombs in the Moslem quarter...
...which hopes to goad the Moslems into a full-scale racial war; in that event the S.A.O. feels confident that the French army will side with the Europeans. The terrorists also hope to show the world that French troops and police no longer control the cities of Algiers and Oran, thus any agreement with the F.L.N. is doomed to failure...