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...that Charles de Gaulle will be any easier to live with once the Algerian peace is a reality. If he stays on as President, he will set about the "renovation" of France, which to him means re-establishing la patrie as the dominant political, military and diplomatic power in Europe. While going along with the Common Market, he is determined to resist "supranationalism" and to maintain French independence of action, including a French nuclear striking force. This politique de grandeur may make De Gaulle a problem for the U.S., but it should also make him a more secure, more reliable...
...bloody, seven-year Algerian War, which has cost an estimated 400,000 lives, was nearly over. In a green-shuttered Parliament building in Libya's capital city of Tripoli, 54 members of the Algerian National Revolutionary Council met last week behind heavily guarded doors to vote on the cease-fire agreement with France that will lead to Algerian independence...
...accord had been hammered out between teams of negotiators headed by Louis Joxe, De Gaulle's Minister of State for Algerian Affairs (see box) and the F.L.N. Vice Premier, burly Belkacem Krim. Already approved by the French Cabinet, the agreement needed only the approval of four-fifths of the Revolutionary Council, which could not reject it without also rejecting Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda who, only six months ago, was designated by the Council to replace ill and aging (62) Ferhat Abbas in the task of swiftly bringing the war to a close...
...captive French soldiers, the French some 5,000 F.L.N. soldiers. De Gaulle's government will then proclaim a series of amnesties covering those sentenced or awaiting judgment for political crimes ranging from nonviolent acts to murder. All Moslem prisoners under death sentence have already been transferred from Algerian to French jails to prevent European terrorists from breaking into the prisons and killing them...
...order in Algeria along with the French army, and will consist of Moslem militiamen and conscripts together with French security police and gendarmes; and 2) organize the referendum by which Moslems and Europeans in Algeria will answer yes or no to the question: "Do you approve of Algerian independence and cooperation with France...