Algeria: Object: Destruction

Instead of keeping Algeria French, the Secret Army's terrorists now seemed determined to destroy it. "If we are forced to leave," they threaten, "we will leave the country the way we found it in 1830." Meanwhile, they are desperately trying to provoke a racial war that would goad the Moslems to revolt and wreck the cease-fire agreement. Last week was the bloodiest since the cease-fire began.

Booby-Trapping Cars. On the Algiers waterfront one day last week, the carnage began when a booby-trapped car exploded. killing 62 Moslem dockers gathered for the morning shape-up and wounding another no, including many youngsters...

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