At the big Colombes stadium outside Paris, President René Coty watched Toulouse beat Angers for the soccer championship of France. Just behind him in the presidential box, conspicuous in his red tarboosh and thick glasses, sat France's favorite Algerian, Ali Chekkal, 60-year-old lawyer and onetime vice president of the Algerian Assembly. When the French were summoned before the bar of the U.N. Assembly last February to defend their Algerian policies, they took along Ali Chekkal as a living, breathing testimonial to France's real popularity with Algeria's Moslems.
To Algeria's militant nationalists, this was...
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