Word: rocher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boredom." Now its 400,000 people (half European, half Moslem) were bored only with mutual slaughter. The Oran prefect was hiding at the center of a labyrinth of locked doors and guarded hallways; the entire civil administration of Algiers has fled 40 miles away to an armed camp at Rocher Noir...
...reached only by taking two separate elevators and passing through a complicated maze of locked and guarded doors. The prefect of Algiers and his staff dodge from one hiding place to another, frequently changing cars and routes. The top Gaullist administrators have abandoned Algiers and huddle together at Le Rocher Noir, 25 miles away, behind three rings of barbed wire, defended by armored cars. S.A.O. spies are everywhere. Last fall, the French government sent 200 more policemen to Algiers; shortly after they arrived, they found that the S.A.O. had a complete list of their names, as well as their photographs...