Word: ries
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each voter was issued pieces of paper already stamped "yes" and "no" for easy deposit in the nearest ballot box. Conservatives, most Socialists-even the Communists-all urged yes. Only the extreme supporters of Algėrie Franqaise demanded...
First to die was Jean-Hubert Poggi, 38, of the daily Dépêche d'Algérie (circ. 50,000). A gentle giant of a man who was born in Algiers and lived alone on the edge of the casbah, Poggi ignored the advice of friends that he move to a safer place. "The Moslems know me," he said, "and I know them." But that did not stop one of his neighbors from putting a bullet through Jean-Hubert Poggi's brain. Next was a reporter for Paris' Le Figaro, Jean-Claude Dadant...
...journalists and the French colonists. But the Moslems are not the only danger. From the carefully considered terror of the S.A.O. no newsman is safe. In an earlier day, the S.A.O. welcomed both French and foreign reporters, believing-wrongly-that they would render support for an Algérie Française. Arriving newsmen were met at the airport by S.A.O. representatives; with S.A.O. leaders, interviews were easy to obtain...
...possibly could. The European quarters of Algiers and Oran, the two biggest cities, were solidly in S.A.O. hands. Algiers, with 800,000 people, resounded night and day to the thud of plastic bombs and the rattle of submachine guns; the staccato European war cry of Al-gé-rie Fran-çaise! was answered by the shrill Moslem incantation of "Yn! Yu! Yu!" Oran, a city facing the sea but turned inward on itself like a snail, was once called "the capital of boredom." Now its 400,000 people (half European, half Moslem) were bored only with mutual slaughter...
...next elections, will instead make a grand and ambiguous appeal for the election of those who support Gaullist policy and French glory. Despite De Gaulle's popularity, the Gaullist U.N.R. stands to lose many of its 207 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. The Algérie Française wing of the party will defect, and 26 U.N.R. Deputies from Algerian constituencies will disappear with independence. The Communists may gain seats by arguing that they had been for an Algerian settlement before anyone else...