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...scenes of horror spread. In Oran, a legless Moslem veteran was pulled from his wheelchair and murdered, while near the city's imposing Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, European teen-agers gleefully urinated on the body of another slain Moslem. Near Algiers, a French jeweler was "executed" as a traitor by the S.A.O. because he planned "to flee the country when it was in danger." At industrial Bone, where 1,500 years ago St. Augustine preached the City of God, a bomb destroyed a Moslem tenement, killing ten women and children, and Europeans drove off rescuers with rocks and pistol...
...wave of terror throughout Algeria in which the S.A.O., the barbouzes, the Moslem F.L.N., the police and the army appeared to tangle indiscriminately. In four cities within four days, 80 people were killed and 160 wounded. Several Moslems suspected of being terrorists were caught by a crowd in Oran and burned alive in their car. In a mountain gorge near Bougie, the F.L.N. ambushed a French army convoy, killing 18 soldiers-the highest army losses in recent months...
...European Secret Army Organization, which is determined that Algeria remain French, was nevertheless not ready to make a direct grab for power. A secret S.A.O. broadcast told its followers to stay out of trouble. For its part, the government swiftly cordoned off the various Moslem quarters in Algiers, Oran and Constantine. All traffic was rerouted, and streets leading to the European sections were closed by barbed wire and heavy police guard...
Chanting Algérie algérienne, the demonstrators at first shuffled peacefully by in the rain. But at the Rond-point de la Défense, just outside Neuilly, the rabble borrowed its tactics from French extremists in Algiers and Oran: slashing tires, overturning cars, shattering shop windows. Shots rang out and police, flailing night sticks and heavily weighted capes, clashed headlong with...
With an estimated 15.000 hardcore members, S.A.O. since April has extended its authority from Algiers to the largely European cities of Oran. Bone and Constantine. Arms are smuggled in from Spain, and four tons of plastic explosive were stolen from an army-guarded munitions base near Algiers. Though Raoul Salan has overall command of S.A.O.. its tactical leader is reportedly ex-Colonel Yves Godard. who-like Salan-has been condemned to death in absentia for his part in the April rebellion. As chief of military and civil intelligence and security in Algiers from 1957 to 1960. Godard acquired...