Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fought for more than six years, and now seemed ready to hand over to them an independent and prosperous Algeria. The desperate white settlers, who have exploded more than 100 bombs this month to protest the coming peace talks, were delirious with joy at the news of the revolt. They took to the streets in cheering crowds and drove about Algiers in their cars, sounding three short honks and two long ones on their horns, symbolizing the old ultra battle cry: Al-gé-rie Fran-çaise. They scarcely cared that the army was not fighting primarily...
Challe, 55, the leader of the revolt, is a brilliant and trusted soldier of France. He was De Gaulle's choice two years ago to replace General Raoul Salan, who was fired as Algerian commander for his right-wing insurrectionary sympathies with settlers. The "Challe Plan." under which crack army units were removed from fixed bases and sent freewheeling about Algeria in search of rebels, had been a smashing success: from a high of 100,000 guerrillas when he took over, the rebels are now down to 15,000. In retirement for the past three months, Challe apparently plotted...
Late in the coup's first day, the army garrison at Oran elected to join General Challe, and the revolt was no longer confined to one city. Challe apparently could count on at least the tacit support of a majority of the 50,000 hard-bitten paratroopers in Algeria. Most of the rest of the 500,000-man army still seemed loyal to De Gaulle-as far as anyone could tell. All communications with the outside world were broken off, except for cryptic messages over Radio Algiers ("The palm tree is in the oasis") apparently meant for the right...
Overnight, the Algiers mutiny threatened to wreck the work of years. For unless he could decisively and quickly crush General Challe's revolt, Algerian independence was not De Gaulle's to promise or deliver...
Although Salazar's censors tried to hide the fact, the revolt in northern Angola smoldered on unchecked. In one month, if reports trickling out from the scene could be believed, terrorists had killed 350 white Portuguese. Gangs of Africans armed with long-bladed panga knives were attacking isolated farmhouses of Portuguese settlers. Excited reports from up-country told of five whites and two Africans holding off a band of attackers at the village of Lucunga until their ammunition ran out and they were overrun and hacked to pieces. The terrorists also were attacking blacks loyal to the regime...