Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle, the French President gave his outline of a new plan to settle the rebellion. Leaks had it that De Gaulle would propose elections for a new Algerian assembly and executive with whom negotiations on Algeria's political future would be conducted. The plan would not require a rebel cease-fire as a precondition to a settlement, leaving this open in the hope that public opinion in Algeria would by itself force the rebels to stop fighting...
Wherever De Gaulle went, he found the army wanting a better shake for Algeria's Moslem population, but in no mood for Algerian independence or for giving up the fight. De Gaulle's room for maneuver was small. Extremists in the rebel F.L.N., in one of those unmistakable gestures meant to show that they had no intention of compromising, shot down 67-year-old Senator Cherif Benhabyles, an Algerian, in the streets of Vichy. A friend of F.L.N. Leader Ferhat Abbas, Benhabyles had offered to be a link in discussions with the French...
...scant year since taking office, hard-driving Premier Phoui Sananikone. 55, has reversed this tide. Publicly lining Laos up "on the side of the free world," Phoui (pronounced Pwee) cleansed his government of Communists and successfully "integrated" the army, i.e., interned one of the rebel units-a move that sent the other fleeing toward Communist North Viet Nam. He made it clear that he no longer wanted any part of the three-power (Poland, India, Canada) international control commission established by the 1954 Geneva agreement, for while the Canadians sat around frustrated, the Reds used the Poles to keep close...
...fateful appointment for Soustelle and for France. Soustelle went to Algeria a "liberal," and he vastly annoyed Algeria's European settlers by trying to head off the simmering Moslem revolt with agrarian reform and more government jobs for Moslems. But after August 1955, when a band of Algerian rebels murdered and mutilated scores of French civilians in the mining town of El Alia, Soustelle turned implacably hostile toward negotiations with the rebel F.L.N., called for all-out military suppression. So congenial did the settlers find his new attitude that when Socialist Premier Guy Mollet yanked Soustelle from...
...most of all, foreign oil companies were doubtful that oil could be got out through war-torn Algeria. The F.L.N. rebels, insisting that the French Sahara is an inseparable part of Algeria (although most Algerian Moslems fear the Sahara and have traditionally avoided it), swore to destroy any oil the French tried to move out of the desert, proclaimed that the rebel government would automatically consider void any Sahara concessions that foreign oil companies negotiated with the French government...