Word: ried
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Organization. At Salan's signal, pied-noir demonstrators rush from their homes shouting "De Gaulle to the gallows!" and hammer out on dishpans the deafening rhythm of "Al-gé-rie Fran-caise!" Salan's nod is sufficient to explode plastic bombs* under the bed of a Gaullist security chief in Oran or on the doorstep of a police inspector in Algiers. After each deed, Salan's men boast: "The S.A.O. strikes when it wants, how it wants, where it wants...
...S.A.O. is Jean-Jacques Susini, 28, a gifted pied-noir of Corsican descent. His ideas are frankly fascist ("Why don't we come out and say so?") but, publicly at least, they are devoid of racial overtones?largely because the 130,000 Jews of Algeria are pro Algérie Française, and because S.A.O. propaganda has to insist, preposterous though the claim is, that the majority of Moslems love the S.A.O. better than the F.L.N. Susini, the young doctrinaire, and Salan, the old politician-general, have become close friends. He listens intently to Susini's urgings that France needs...
...army to an uprising. Salan is convinced that the soldiers will not open fire on Algeria's Europeans, and that a sizable body of troops will actually join him. De Gaulle believes that the majority of the army will support the government because 1) it recognizes that Algérie française is dead, and 2) it does not wish to go against the will of the French nation, which is overwhelmingly for an Algerian settlement. De Gaulle guesses that when the French-F.L.N. treaty is signed, the S.A.O. might seize Algiers, Oran, and possibly Bone. He is betting that...
...Algiers last week, an average of ten people a day were shot, stabbed or bludgeoned to death. Between murders, the city rocked to the explosion of plastic bombs and to the dishpan clamor of Europeans who poured into the streets shouting "Algérie Franfaise!" and "De Gaulle au poteau!" (De Gaulle to the gallows). Once the bitter war in Algeria was fought between the French and the Moslems...
...Leroy's men replied with automatic arms and hand grenades. Fleeing, the attackers left behind them one dead S.A.O. terrorist under a bush. He was the first open battle casualty of the S.A.O., and is already being hailed among ultras as the No. 1 martyr of Algérie Française. Colonel Leroy, keeping his own casualties secret, moved out next night to another secret headquarters...