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Life Goes on Quietly Amid Bloody Fight
In the small restaurants near the Paris Opera, diners scarcely pause at the sound of a plastic bomb exploding in the heart of the city.
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
In Algiers, searcely a pistol shot from the gleaming government buildings atop a terraced slope leading up from the Mediterranean. Arab shopkeepers stack their long loaves of French bread and hang their meats in the open air.
FOR JUST AS LONDON. Berlin and other European cities found a way of life under the rain of World War II bombs, so in France and Algeria there is a way of life amid the terror of plastic bombs and the tomy guns of self-appointed Arab and European executioners.
This is the agony through which France and Algeria are passing and which can have but one conclusion no matter what events may intervene.
There is no time to mourn the dead of yesterday, for more will be dead today and still more tomorrow.
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In a world of cold wars, of leaders who vie for space in the public prints and of great decisions, it is possible to lose sight of the real story which is the people.
IN ALGERIA, NEARLY 800 persons are dead and more than 1,000 have been injured in bloody anarchy sweeping Algiers, Bone and Oran.
In Paris, Communist-trained street fighters stir up an orgy of violence and eight persons die in a head-thumping collision with riot police.
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In Elysee Palace, President Charles de Gaulle, standing increasingly alone between the extremes of right and left, pursues inoxorably the course which he believes leads to his own and France's destiny.
And on the Franco-Swiss border, Algerian and French negotiators seek a cease-fire before the next and final explosion expected to be the supreme challenge to De Gaulle by the secret OAS army led by Gen. Raoul Salan.
IT IS A PART of the sadness of these days that the disruptive forces tearing at France do not represent the majority.
The majority seeks only an end to the seven-year Algerian conflict. In the minorities who oppose De Gaulle there is an illustration of how that conflict has changed.
On the one hand, to the far right, is the dissident Salan who believes he fights not only for a French Algeria but also against Communism in Africa.
On the other, to the far left, are the Communists who would welcome civil war as their own path to power.
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IN BETWEEN are the victims, the girl blinded by a plastic bomb, the boy suffocated in a mob.
And as life goes on in the Paris cafes and as extremes of right and left pursue their own ends to bring about the downfall of De Gaulle, a new danger arises.
Is it that out of the conflict born in Algeria, there may arise in France a new political alignment pitting a Fascist right against a Communist left. Such an alignment inevitably would seem to lead to civil war.
ELMONT, N.Y. — (UPI) — A 28-year-old army reservist, who claims he was mistakenly called to active duty, said yesterday he intends to sue the government for its error.
To prevent an extreme, De Gaulle counts on two things — an early agreement with the Algerians and his demonstrated hold on the bulk of the French people.
Army Reservist to Sue Government
Robert Rafferty claimed he was recalled for four months although he protested he was in the inactive reserve, not the active reserve as the army believed. Rafferty said he served a hitch in the army from 1955 to 1957.
Rafferty, the father of a youn$_{k}$ daughter, said he and his now-pregnant wife, Elaine, had to pay $100 a month rent while in Massachusetts. He claimed that he had to buy all new army uniforms and sell his gasoline station at a loss when he was recalled.
He said he spent two weeks at Camp Kilmer, N.J., and then was sent to Ft. Devens, Mass., where he reportedly painted houses.
Rafferty did not specify the amount of his claim. He said the money didn't matter as much as making the government admit it made a mistake by recalling him.
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