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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...
...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...