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...nationalists started all over again, this time on the principle that "if the French come against us with a hammer, we will become mosquitoes." Instead of a single large army, they concentrated on building small, highly trained cadres. As the nucleus of the F.L.N. (Front de Libération Nationale) took shape, Mohammed ben Bella, a former French army noncom with a brilliant World War II combat record, negotiated promises of aid from Egypt. Then at i a.m. of All Saints' Day, 1954, simultaneously across Algeria, 30 F.L.N. bands struck. The Algerian war had begun...
...World War II gallantry, Lieut. Dubos was bitterly resentful a year and a half ago when his call-up separated him from his wife, his three children, and a well-paid bank job in Paris. But the massacre of 302 Moslem villagers by the rebel Front de Libération Nationale in the isolated hamlet of Kasba Mechta (TIME, June 10, 1957) changed his mind. As the first French officer to arrive at Kasba Mechta after the massacre, Olivier Dubos was so deeply shocked by what he saw that he wrote his family: "I must stick it out here...
...most of the villagers, gaiety and great pride overcome grimness. Author Deane is aware that there are lessons to be learned, as well as taught in Andalusia. One lesson well learned: the author's three-year-old son can handle a one-glass-a-day wine ration handily, unless someone feeds him sugar cane. When someone does, the mixture "foments"-or so says an ancient barmaid-and he sings Old King Cole in a manner that sounds almost bawdy. But then, of course, the clan is Australian...
...raids which ultimately ballooned into the Algerian revolt. Of the nine original moujahids (freedom fighters), three are now dead and five are in French prisons. The only one still at large is Belkacem Krim, 35, now the senior military man in Algeria's Front de Libération Nationale. Like most Algerian rebel leaders, moody Belkacem Krim, who has five death sentences hanging over his balding head, rarely discusses his personal activities. But from Paris last week TIME Correspondent Stanley Karnow reported...
...pursuing Japanese, must travel. The road is an undulating mass of Chinese refugees moving in grim lockstep with fear, famine and misery. In their eyes, the Americans are the dei ex machina shielded from fatality by the jeep, the SCR-300 radio and the K-ration...