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...fleeing Europeans seem determined to leave nothing to the Moslem inheritors of Algeria. The plumbing in abandoned homes was savagely broken; refrigerators were thrown into the Mediterranean; cars driven to the airport and docks were wrecked as a final gesture. In the cities of Algiers and Oran, Bone and Constantine last week, Europeans no longer greeted each other with "Bonjour, comment ca va?" Now they say: "When are you leaving...
...Algiers and Oran, the Secret Army has used every conceivable method of murder, killing 1,000 Moslems since the ceasefire, with the avowed purpose of provoking Moslem mobs into taking revenge and unleashing a racial war. So far, the terrorists have failed. Last week the frustrated S.A.O. tried another tack: its gunmen sauntered down the cities' streets shooting Moslem women and young girls-killing 18 and wounding...
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...
...city's broad Boulevard Joffre. six Moslems were shot dead as police and soldiers stood aloof. Brazenly, the S.A.O. bombed the heavily guarded 14th-floor office of Oran's new prefect. The day's toll: no dead throughout Algeria (104 of them Moslems), 140 wounded...
Murdering Children. De Gaulle's high commissioner in Algeria, Christian Fouchet, still hesitated to use the Moslem "force locale" to patrol European-populated cities (except for one battalion in Oran) for fear of worsening the racial strife. But from his fortified headquarters at Le Rocher Noir, he clamped a tighter curfew on Algiers, promised new tough measures, and hinted that he would ship home all French officials sabotaging the Algerian administration by go-slow tactics...