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...over the vast noncombatant Moslem majority, separate them from the F.L.N. rebels, eventually produce a new moderate leadership that would negotiate a new relationship with France as between friends. That hope dwindled when the F.L.N. flags bloomed on every minaret, when the shouts of the demonstrators in Algiers and Oran, in Bone and Constantine, changed from "Vive De Gaulle" to "Vive Ferhat Abbas," from "Vive Algérie Algérienne" to "Vive Algérie Musulmane" (Moslem Algeria...
...Gaulle to the gallows!" shouted the European mobs in Oran and Algiers to whom he had once been hero. They had been powerful enough in 1956 to rout Premier Guy Mollet with a barrage of tomatoes and dangerous enough in 1958 to bring down the Fourth Republic. Now they threatened death or disfiguration if President Charles de Gaulle dared to set foot in Algeria...
Indomitable, Charles de Gaulle boarded a Caravelle jet plane at Orly airport and flew to Algeria. Arriving in a driving rain, his first stop on a six-day tour was in Ai'n Temouchent, a market town near Oran, where 9,000 Moslems and 8,000 angry Europeans jammed the main square. Some Moslems, on order of their employers, held up banners reading "Algeria null but it was the Europeans who did most of the shouting. A valiant half-dozen Moslems suddenly raised a sign inscribed "Vive De Gaulle!" It was torn from their hands three times while...
Serene Salaud. On De Gaulle's arrival in Algeria, rioters surged through Algiers and Oran, but were easily contained by helmeted police using tear-gas bombs and "defensive" grenades, which explode with a loud noise but do little damage. Some diehards built a barricade in Algiers' Rue Michelet. This time the army did not stand idly by-two tanks clanked forward and shattered the feeble rampart of bed springs, paving stones and garbage cans...
...transit camp'' of Cinq-Palmiers in the Algiers military district, the inspectors found six prisoners, three of whom displayed recent contusions, jammed into a single cell; at their feet lay the corpse of yet another Moslem who had died unattended during the preceding night. At Telagh, in Oran military district, the wrists of several prisoners still bore the marks of ropes used to hang them from the ceiling during interrogations. And at the small (152 men) camp of Bou-Gobrine, so many prisoners had been killed "while attempting to escape," that the inspectors dryly suggested that "this question...