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Fortnight ago, summoned to a staff conference on how to counter the French army's increasingly aggressive tactics, Amirouche and two aides began the long hike to rebel headquarters in Tunis. They never got there. Acting on a tip, 3,000 French troops surrounded a craggy mountain where Amirouche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: A Soldier's Death | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Last week both sides did say something. At a press conference in Tunis, big, stoop-shouldered M'hammed Yazid, "Minister of Information" in the rebels' provisional government, stepped forward. "We regret to declare." he announced, "that the provisional government of the Algerian Republic does not presently see any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: The Sterile Struggle | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

All along the 1200-mile arc from Casablanca to Tunis last week, people-Arabs and French alike-mourned the sorry state of things with the same cliché: Nous sommes dépassés par les événements (We are outstripped by events). As long as the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH AFRICA: The Rotting Oranges | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

Mixed with the cheers for De Gaulle were a few rumbles of discontent. Two days before the general's inauguration, 1,000 Paris gas and electricity workers demonstrated against his austerity budget. Algeria's right-wing representatives in the National Assembly were angered by a phrase in De...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Revolution Accomplished | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

In the end, the delegates seemed to have learned more from their disagreements than from their rantings against the colonialists. They decided to start a sort of permanent African GHQ of agitators to carry on their work, but always mindful of Nasser's muscle flexing; they set the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GHANA: Scram! | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

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