Word: algerians
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...City-.born Bud Trillin came to TIME by way of Yale, where he was chairman of the Yale Daily News and magna cum laude in English in 1957. Among his early assignments were short stints in our London and Paris bureaus, where his most memorable assignment was the 1958 Algerian generals' revolt, during which a rifle-bearing Arab shot at him. He now regards that experience as casual...
...placid citizens of Geneva take international conferences in stride, and scarcely looked up as the black limousines containing Russian, American and Chinese delegates swept by on their way to the Palais des Nations. But it was more dangerous to have the Algerian rebels in their midst...
...week long Geneva's newspapers reported threatening letters received by the police from French right-wing activists, and cafe sitters all but flinched in anticipation of the explosion of a plastic bomb. As the Algerian F.L.N. delegation moved into the luxurious tile-roofed villa belonging to the Sheik of Qatar, nervous Swiss soldiers crouched low behind sandbagged defense posts. One panicky recruit fired a burst over the 'head of a photographer who was aiming his camera...
...delegates plan to fly by helicopter each day across the lake to the French resort town of Evian-les-Bains, where, in the Hotel du Pare, at a table purposely made so wide that it will be physically impossible for delegates to shake hands with their opposite numbers, the Algerian rebels and the French will at last try to negotiate an end to the six-year-old Algerian...
...Negotiators. The French delegation is headed by Algerian Affairs Minister Louis Joxe, 59; the F.L.N. by small, tough Belkacem Krim, 38. A former French army corporal, Krim rose from guerrilla fighter in his native Kabylia to become field commander of the entire rebel army. Krim, five times sentenced to death in absentia by French military courts, is the only one of the nine "historical leaders" who began the insurrection in 1954 still at large (four were killed; four are French prisoners...