Word: tlemcen
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Though the S.A.O. had so far failed to provoke Moslems to massive retaliation against the Europeans of Algeria, there were signs that Algerian nationalist discipline was beginning to crack. Near Tlemcen, five French Spahis were killed in their sleep by Moslem soldiers. The five-man Council of Greater Algiers, which controls the city's half-million Moslem population, charged French laxity in suppressing European terrorism. In the Algiers Casbah, where Moslems have instituted their own 24-hour guard, an F.L.N. spokesman wondered how long the Algerian population could be held down: "We have a list of 5.000 known S.A.O...
Your Algeria. The tumultuous weather followed De Gaulle on his helicopter flight across western Algeria to the ancient Moslem city of Tlemcen, as recently as last year a fanatic stronghold of the F.L.N. rebels. Landing in a hailstorm, De Gaulle received a wildly enthusiastic reception from the city's overwhelmingly Moslem population...
...intolerable pressure" on the F.L.N.'s fight for independence. "Algeria is not France. The Algerian people are not French," he cried. A French troop convoy was ambushed 90 miles east of Oran and 19 soldiers killed; a portable polling booth was blown up near the Tunisian border; in Tlemcen, a crowd watching an election movie was sprayed with F.L.N. machine-gun fire...
...them how to fight in the desert by ambushing a French army, practically annihilating it. Nobody learned the lesson better than Sublieutenant Bazaine, who was wounded, promoted to lieutenant. Later Bazaine learned to assume his famous poker face as head of France's Bureau arabe (military intelligence) at Tlemcen, Algeria...