Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, a few irritating details remained to be settled: 1) the F.L.N. is reluctant to give guarantees of safety to some of the more notorious European leaders in the terrorist Secret Army Organization, 2) the F.L.N. wants a firm, detailed timetable on the French agreement to evacuate its army from Algeria within three years, 3) both sides must agree on the Moslem-European membership of the twelve-man Provisional Executive, which will temporarily govern Algeria...
...guarded border last week, 30 young men sorrowfully stored their arms and folded away the olive-green uniforms whose orange, green and white shoulder patches bore the proud label "Freedom Fighters." They were the remnants of 500 romantics who in 1956 launched the Irish Republican Army's last terrorist campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland...
While the war was ending, the desperate extremists of the Secret Army Organization stepped up their terrorist campaign in Algeria to an unprecedented pitch. Two French army pilots took off in their planes and strafed an F.L.N. army camp across the Moroccan border. While veiled Moslem women mourned the slain, the pilots returned to their base in Algeria and promptly deserted. In a single day in Algeria, 75 people were killed or wounded. In Algiers, European gunmen spread chaos, killing at least 20 anti-S.A.O. commandos of De Gaulle's government. The police received emergency calls reporting murders...
...holy month, Ramadan. It was also the time Charles de Gaulle had chosen for his latest broadcast report on the Algerian situation, and he sounded as if, for him, the night held no doubts whatever: peace with the Moslems of Algeria would soon be concluded, he insisted, and the terrorist Secret Army Organization would be crushed...
Salan is not a terrorist any more than Caroline Kennedy is. He is a man who believes with his soul that Algeria is a part of France. He knows that De Gaulle has be trayed his trust, and he is now against De Gaulle's idea of giving away this oil-rich area. Salan is an honorable, conscientious leader of men, and he has a cause based on justice and the dignity of man. Is this a terrorist...