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Primed with information about the political consciousness of Latin American students, two Algerian student leaders arrived from Lima, Peru, in New York last week for a tour of six American campuses. Mesuwud Aitchalal and Chaib Taleb, the President and Vice-President of the Algerian National Union of Students (UGEMA) were in the U.S. with a double purpose: to propagandize for Algerian independence and to learn first-hand of the strangly parochial and non-political nature of American student life...
Brothers or Comrades. Some of the settlers now recognize that the Frenchman's only hope in Algeria is to share it with the Algerians as equals. But the most significant change to have come about during the year is in the army. Purged of its extremists, it is now a thoroughly efficient fighting force that steers carefully clear of politics. It seems to regard the obstinate pieds noirs (black feet-Europeans born in Algeria) as almost as great an obstacle to an Algerian solution as the rebels themselves. Last week, after a series of clashes between his soldiers...
Added Abbas candidly: "There is no military solution to the Algerian problem." In Paris the leftist weekly L'Express flatly reported that the De Gaulle government has been in touch with the rebels, using Indian and Lebanese diplomats as intermediaries...
...only three days before De Gaulle spoke in Bourges, one of the worst riots since the Algerian war began broke out in Constantine, Algeria's third largest city. Enraged by a rebel attack outside town on two young Europeans and their teenage dates-one girl was kidnaped, the other three youngsters murdered-a mob of settlers surged through Constantine's streets wrecking Moslem shops, beating up such hapless Moslem citizens as fell into their hands, and shouting: "De Gaulle to the gallows!" Next day Moslem youths counterattacked in the streets, wielding knives, razors and steel-tipped clubs against...
...Charles de Gaulle seemed to be indicating that he knew something that everyone else had missed. A heady scent of behind-the-scenes bargaining was in the air. Modifying the rebels' previous insistence that any negotiations must be held in neutral territory, Ferhat Abbas, "Prime Minister" of the Algerian rebel government, announced that he would be willing to go to Paris to talk with De Gaulle after preliminary contacts in a neutral country...