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Twenty gun-toting cops burst into the offices of La Dépêche d'Algérie, Algiers' leading French-language newspaper, ordered the 200 employees out within ten minutes. Simultaneously, out in the provinces police swooped on L'Echo d'Oran and La Dépêche de Constantine. Thus last week, only days after formalizing his one-man, one-party rule (TIME, Sept. 20), Algerian Strongman Ahmed ben Bella seized his country's last three remaining French-owned newspapers. To Ben Bella they were dangerous relics of colonialism and tantalizing...
...creating an independent Algeria "associated" with France. The fervent speeches were generally unheard in the shouting, music and indiscriminate firing in air-the traditional means of expressing high spirits in North Africa. Roads were blocked by cars whose horns blared out the six-count beat of "Algérie algérienne," instead of the hated five-count "Algerie française" of the European Secret Army...
...S.A.O. turnabout stems partly from the fact that the terrorists now hate De Gaulle even more than they hate the Moslems. But it is also a tacit admission that Algérie Française is dead, and that the S.A.O. terror campaign, which slew an average of 1,000 Moslems a month, failed of its major purpose-to incite a racial bloodbath in Algeria that would force the French army to defy De Gaulle and come in on the side of the Europeans...
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...
...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...