Word: ried
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aftermath of De Gaulle's turbulent five-day visit, two things were becoming clearer. As a hope and a plan, Algérie Française was dead. The European extremists, whose mob violence overthrew the Fourth Republic, had proved paper tigers. And in the face of the mass Moslem hostility displayed last week, not even the most misguided colon could continue the fiction that the silent Moslems (who are nine-tenths of the population) secretly longed to become Frenchmen and make Algeria an integral part of France...
...that would negotiate a new relationship with France as between friends. That hope dwindled when the F.L.N. flags bloomed on every minaret, when the shouts of the demonstrators in Algiers and Oran, in Bone and Constantine, changed from "Vive De Gaulle" to "Vive Ferhat Abbas," from "Vive Algérie Algérienne" to "Vive Algérie Musulmane" (Moslem Algeria...
...being circulated in ultra-rightist circles, and terrorists openly boast that "this time we will stage summary executions ourselves." In the garrison town of Castiglione, 25 miles from Algiers, a hundred junior officers met in secret to discuss how they could best save the idea of "Algérie Francaise." The army high command, which last January promised to keep pro-ultra paratroopers out of Algiers last week moved a paratroop regiment into the city for "rest after operations...
...French" settlers, who had learned from their defeat last January that spontaneous violence is no substitute for political organization in depth. Setting up headquarters in a hardware store opposite Algiers' town hall, right-wing settlers formed a new "Front de l'Algérie Francaise" dedicated to "keeping Algeria in the Republic," within three days declared they had signed up 100,000 members-including several hundred army officers. Threatened Algerian Deputy René Vinciguerra: "Let De Gaulle see Ferhat Abbas in Paris. We don't mind. But the minute he allows Abbas back in Algeria, we will...
...rie, je t'aime, Chérie, je t'adore...