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Last week both sides did say something. At a press conference in Tunis, big, stoop-shouldered M'hammed Yazid, "Minister of Information" in the rebels' provisional government, stepped forward. "We regret to declare." he announced, "that the provisional government of the Algerian Republic does not presently see any prospect for peace in Algeria." Yazid went on to warn off Standard Oil of New Jersey, which had just negotiated oil-exploration rights in the Algerian Sahara with the French. "Our people are not tied by deals concluded with the enemy." warned Yazid, "and consider them an act of hostility...
...transfer of Algerian Rebel Leader Mohammed ben Bella and four of his colleagues from Paris' Santé prison to more comfortable quarters in a military fortress. Henceforth, the five rebel leaders (whom the French kidnaped off a Moroccan plane in 1956) will have the honorable status of military prisoners. ¶The release of 7,000 Algerians from political detention camps. ¶ The commutation to life imprisonment of all death sentences (198) hanging over members of the rebel F.L.N...
...This puts a premium on murder," objected an indignant Algerian Moslem member of the National Assembly whose son and son-in-law were both killed by F.L.N. terrorists last month. Rumors spread through Paris and Algiers that private talks are being carried on by the French with F.L.N. representatives. Premier Debré insisted in the Assembly that De Gaulle's October invitation to Algerian leaders to come to Paris under safe-conduct to negotiate "a peace of the brave" was still open. "No other offer," said Debré, "has been or could ever be envisaged." Yet such denials...
...sent out from the capital in Rabat reported that the trouble was mainly economic and social-the tribesmen felt they were being treated like poor relations by the "city slickers" in the government. But privately, they warned that the problem was serious. Tribal leaders were "in touch" with the Algerian rebels, and spoiling for trouble. Their quarrel, insisted the tribesmen, was only with the politicians, not with King Mohammed...
...representatives in the National Assembly were angered by a phrase in De Gaulle's inaugural speech showing that he does not consider Algeria a part of Metropolitan France. French colonists in Algeria were even more disturbed by the prospect that De Gaulle, as President, intends to pardon five Algerian rebel captives, kidnaped by French agents on a 1956 flight to Tunis. Among them is Mohammed ben Bella. Deputy Premier of the Algerian government-in-exile. The five would be transferred from a Paris prison to more comfortable detention on Belle-He, off the coast of Brittany...