Six Jews were killed and seven seriously wounded this week in the mounting clashes between the European underground OAS and the Algerian Moslems, it was reported here today.
The list of Jewish dead included two each in Oran and Algiers and one each in Mascara and Constantine. As a French-Moslem cease-fire neared, the OAS stepped up its attacks and commandos of the Moslem rebel FLN responded with reprisals. Tension was particularly high in the Jewish quarter of Oran where Jews were under frequent attacks by FLN members.
Jews in Oran struggled to organize their own defense and to ward off attacks in the quarter which is adjacent to a Moslem section. Incidents and incitements between the two sections are frequent, police reported.
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