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...part, the F.L.N. agreed to: 1) a three-year transition period during which the French army will gradually withdraw from Algeria; 2) lease special bases to France, e.g., the naval port of Mers-el-Kebir, the Reggan nuclear test site in the Sahara; 3) accept as Algerian citizens those Europeans who make that choice...
Dead Calm. The usually reserved President Charles de Gaulle cried "Hurrah for France!" and cabled ecstatically: "Since this morning she is prouder and stronger!" Proud French officials said that weather conditions had been almost ideal in the red rock and sand testing area of Reggan, some 750 miles southwest of Algiers, lying near an ancient caravan route between the Mediterranean Sea and the Niger River...
...kilometers of the Nevada test sites, that nearly as many Russians live within a similar radius of the Soviet test center in Kazakhstan, but that only a few hundred thousand people live within 1,000 kilometers of the French testing center in the Desert of Thirst near Reggan...
...desert settlement of Hammoudia, some 25 miles down the sand track from Reggan in the southwest French Sahara, is the front gate of a huge military reserve where 4,500 French technicians and troops work among the intricate gadgets of the Atomic Age. Near by are underground workshops, rows of air-conditioned huts, and an airstrip fit for jets. To the south is the emptiness of the Tanezrouft-the "thirst country" of the central Sahara -where France will most likely test its late starter in the atomic race: a model T bomb too big for their airplanes and too crude...
...Sahara, where he functions as a kind of one-man Cabinet. As the top political authority in France's two Saharan departments (Saoura and Oases), Soustelle supervises the affairs of 93 municipal governments that he has established in the desert, bears responsibility for the security of Reggan, France's atomic test area in the Sahara. And as chief of O.C.R.S. (Common Organization for the Saharan Regions), he is empowered to negotiate pacts with the four newly independent African members of the French Community who share the western and southern Sahara with France...