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Since guns have clearly failed to quell the rebellion, the Portuguese government last week tried words: it announced the repeal of the native statute which divided the population of the colonies in Africa into "civilized" (i.e., Europeans and the few educated natives) and "noncivilized" categories. From now on, all inhabitants of the colonies will be granted Portuguese citizenship "without distinction of race, religion or culture...
Holed up in the jungles, the remaining rebel bands soon ran short of money and munitions. With Sukarno's Russian-supplied navy maintaining an effective blockade, they could not ship out the rubber, copra and coffee from the territories they controlled. Basically, the rebellion failed because Sukarno, however exasperating and muddleheaded, is neither vicious nor ruthless, and does not rouse the passionate indignation needed to fuel a popular uprising...
...four tons of plastic explosive were stolen from an army-guarded munitions base near Algiers. Though Raoul Salan has overall command of S.A.O.. its tactical leader is reportedly ex-Colonel Yves Godard. who-like Salan-has been condemned to death in absentia for his part in the April rebellion. As chief of military and civil intelligence and security in Algiers from 1957 to 1960. Godard acquired an excellent working knowledge of the rebel F.L.N. and has modeled S.A.O. on its methods...
...prisoners in a total prison population of 15,000. Franco, perennially bidding to be recognized as the West's favorite dictator, may simply have rejuggled some of his political prisoners into criminal classifications. Hardly had Herreros sat down than word came from Barcelona of two trials for "military rebellion," Franco's euphemism for anti-Franco activity. An Israeli, a Frenchman and 13 Spaniards were given sentences of one to twelve years in jail...
When the F.L.N. called for a general strike to protest talk of partitioning Algeria, even the French expected the worst. Jacques Coup de Fréjac, France's chief press officer in Algeria, bluntly acknowledged that "support for the rebellion cannot grow any more-it is total," adding that Moslems would "gladly" follow the strike order "ioo%." Last week Algeria's Moslems proved that he was right...