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...France that she is wrong in think the Algerian struggle peripheral to her real concerns. While the terrorism of the O.A.S. verges on the unbelievable (recent estimates of the toll during the first two months of this year have reached 1500 killed and 1900 wounded, in Algiers, Bone and Oran), its purpose is as much to simply attract attention to its ideas as to win a war by violence...
Slow Death. As peace appeared ever closer, the S.A.O. seemed ever more desperately determined to prevent it. During a single morning last week, 54 S.A.O. plastic bombs exploded in the Moslem quarter of Oran, burying families in the debris of tumbled tenements. The French army, torn between loyalty to De Gaulle and reluctance to give up Algeria, continued to show convenient blindness toward S.A.O. activities: Jeeploads of terrorists openly wore army-type uniforms and S.A.O. armbands. But there were signs, too, that the army was becoming increasingly disgusted with the S.A.O...
From time to time, army patrols cordoned off entire blocks in Oran and Algiers and seized quantities of S.A.O. guns and grenades in house-to-house searches...
...S.A.O. promptly made good its losses: a group of Europeans raided an Oran warehouse and made off with 205 pistols, rifles and submachine guns. S.A.O...
Upside Down. In Algeria, an S.A.O. detachment took over the newspaper office of L'Echo d'Oran, put out 20,000 copies of an edition with a huge picture of the S.A.O. chief, ex-General Raoul Salan, and a fiery S.A.O. communiqué, which in their haste they printed upside down. S.A.O. gunmen murdered Commandant Andre Boulle, chief of gendarmerie at Sidi-bel-Abbas, just as he was about to take a plane to Paris to be commended for exceptional service. As the steamer Ville de Bordeaux was about to cast off from Bone harbor bound for France...