Word: rocher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Plea. Vice Premier Belkacem Krim of the Moslem F.L.N. flew in from his headquarters in Tunis to confer with members of the Provisional Government at Le Rocher Noir, the administrative center near Algiers. If anyone could talk to the killers and terrorists of the S.A.O. it was Krim, who had last appeared in Algeria in 1957 as a leader of the F.L.N. underground, which was spreading death and destruction among the Europeans. The S.A.O. had sworn never to allow an F.L.N. leader to enter Algeria alive, but the rightist newspaper L'Anrore hailed his presence and the prospect...
Murdering Children. De Gaulle's high commissioner in Algeria, Christian Fouchet, still hesitated to use the Moslem "force locale" to patrol European-populated cities (except for one battalion in Oran) for fear of worsening the racial strife. But from his fortified headquarters at Le Rocher Noir, he clamped a tighter curfew on Algiers, promised new tough measures, and hinted that he would ship home all French officials sabotaging the Algerian administration by go-slow tactics...
Ailleret raced to Le Rocher Noir, the coastal fortress that houses the French and Provisional Algerian administrations, confirmed Salan's capture to newly appointed High Commissioner Christian Fouchet. As Fouchet called Charles de Gaulle to break the news, a military transport roared off the Reghaia's airstrip, taking the old soldier for the last time from the country for which Raoul Salan, after 44 years of fighting France's enemies, had himself become an enemy of France. Though he is already under sentence of death in absentia, by French law Salan must stand trial. Like ex-General...
...period from French possession to independence (an estimated three to six months), Algeria will be governed by a twelve-man Provisional Executive headed by Moslem Businessman Abderrahmane Fares, 50, released only last month from Fresnes prison, outside Paris. A helicopter touched down last week at the administrative center of Rocher Noir, 25 miles from Algiers, and out stepped Fares, a stooped, balding man in a rumpled grey suit, followed by his attractive French wife and his teen-age son and daughter (another son is a soldier with the F.L.N...
Fares told newsmen that he thought Rocher Noir a "delightful place" and that he had spent a beach holiday there when he was eleven years old. "But when I say it's delightful," he added. "I don't mean we intend to stay here an eternity. I intend going into Algiers as soon as possible. Algeria without Algiers, is nothing." Fares, like the other members of the Executive, knows he is a priority target for the S.A.O. Dr. Jean Mannini. one of the three European members of the Executive, lost a leg in an F.L.N. attack...