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...unofficial tally of votes showed 441 approving the governments' Algerian policy to 21 opposed, with 90 abstaining or not voting...
Like two boxers eying each other across the ring, France's Charles de Gaulle and Algerian rebel "Premier" Ferhat Abbas last week sat waiting for the next diplomatic round. Silent hauteur was Paris' first response to the counterproposals with which Abbas and his "Cabinet" had met De Gaulle's offer of Algerian self-determination (TIME, Sept. 28). The rebels were still insisting that if France wanted a cease-fire in the five-year-old Algerian civil war, it must deal directly with their "provisional government." but this De Gaulle had barred from the beginning. Equally unacceptable...
...intended as window dressing to make the idea of a possible cease-fire palatable to extremist anti-French forces within the rebel ranks. The essential point was that for the first time since the fighting began the rebels had tacitly agreed to abide by the verdict of a peaceful Algerian referendum...
...present chance for peace slip away would be criminal," he insisted. "At last, De Gaulle and Ferhat Abbas agree to a free choice by the Algerian people . . . If I had been in the Algerians' shoes, I would already have wired De Gaulle, 'Arriving Orly Airport at such and such a time. Please send someone to meet me.' " Hopefully, Bourguiba offered his services as referee: "I am ready to do anything for peace . . . act as a postman, anything. If it would help matters, I am ready to meet De Gaulle...
...third program, Harry Golden, author of Only in America and For 2c Plain, will present "Sketches of American Life." The fourth program will include the head of the Algerian delegation to the U.N., who will discuss common problems with a panel of Frenchmen...