Word: algerians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the rebels, only the desire to "get out of the cycle of violence in which Algeria is locked, and to re-enter the reign of law." But there were thunderous hoots of disbelief from right-wing diehards, who were determined to stymie De Gaulle's plan for Algerian self-determination (TIME, Sept. 28). Most of the deputies from Algeria boycotted the session, and the Gaullist U.N.R. Party was shaken by the angry resignation of nine right-wingers, who considered any concessions-even talks with the rebels-as the first step toward France's total loss of Algeria...
...these were the noisy political fringes. In the end the Assembly voted confidence in De Gaulle's Algerian program by an overwhelming...
...both shores of the Mediterranean, the menace of violence lay like a dark shadow over what might well prove the last, best hope for a peaceful settlement of the Algerian fighting. Once again, only the vast prestige of Charles de Gaulle could carry France through to a happy conclusion...
...report applied its criteria to the controversial Algerian resolution passed by the August Congress at Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. In doing so it modified the sharp criticism of a similar resolution passed the year before by the 1958 Student Council Report on NSA. The 1959 report says that "the Algerian resolution is acceptable in so far as it is a protest against certain acts of the French government," but claims that it goes beyond the role of "students as students" when it advocates a specific political solution, the independence of Algeria, since the stu- dent problem is only a small part...
...Algerian side, F.L.N. leader Ferhat Abbas has accepted the principle of "self-determination" but not de Gaulle's insistence on retention of the Sahara resources. Debre has indicated that France will negotiate with Abbas only on military terms of the cease-fire and not on the political terms of the referendum. The two sides remain far apart, but their differences are not unnegotiable, if talks can be carried on without pressure and with the aid of intelligent mediation...