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...soft June evening this summer, the police of industrial Lille came upon a man named Bachir Boussaid lying in a back alley with his head split open. The police knew him as a minor Algerian nationalist who had once belonged to the more moderate M.N.A. and then switched his allegiance to the terrorist F.L.N. Boussaid was taken to a hospital where, the police say, his dying delirium was composed almost entirely of names and addresses...
Into this poisoned atmosphere moved De Gaulle. Shrewdly distinguishing between the Tunisians' natural sympathy for Algerian independence and their own need for continued French economic support, De Gaulle withdrew French troops from southern Tunisia, pulled back to the French Mediterranean base at Bizerte and let Bourguiba know that he wanted his friendship...
From their headquarters in Nasser's Cairo, the Algerian rebels erupted in angry protest at "betrayal" by Tunisia, complained that such a commercial deal with France was a "hostile gesture to the Algerian people at war." Snapped a senior Tunisian politician last week: "If the F.L.N. thinks Tunisia will change its mind, it is mistaken. What right has the F.L.N. to set itself up as the heir to French colonialism in the Sahara...
Bourguiba, besides wanting to be friendly with France, also wants to make Tunisia strong enough economically to withstand the assault of Nasser-style propaganda. He is reported "deeply disturbed" by the continued subservience of the Algerian F.L.N. to Cairo, while Cairo compares him to the "imperialist lackey," Nuri asSaid of Iraq...
Assouad proposed Algerian self-government within a French union, as the best solution, but said he did not know whether or not Gen. DeGaulle favored complete union of France and Algeria. "De Gaulle came to power like a sphinx, not saying what his intentions were," Assouad quipped, "and perhaps without any intentions...