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...beginning of 1957. the U.N. General Assembly called for a "peaceful, democratic and just solution" for the "situation" in Algeria, and without condemning anyone, gave the French and the Algerian nationalists time to work things out. Last week, on the eve of another Assembly meeting, the French brought forth a draft version of their long-promised "framework law" to settle Algeria's future. Totally unacceptable, the Arabs called it, and in fact the law was something of a mouse-small, grey, and of indeterminate shape. But so deep run the divisions within Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury's government...
...exile, freeing his country. After a warmup detailing his early, near-bloodless fight against the French and the ruling dynasty, Bourguiba said that French troops in Tunisia were "embarrassing" to him and "endangering the public order, acting as if they were at war with us or with the Algerian refugees in Tunisia." Although his answers in French were often cryptic in translation (by his 34-year-old son), his delivery was spirited, his hands always expressive. "Was he aiding the Algerians?" "Yes," said Bourguiba, his steely eyes flashing, "I help them . . . They are proving that they mean what they...
While much of the rest of the world was on August vacation, death took no holiday in Algeria. In one four-day period last week, the French army killed 718 Algerian rebels, and the rebels killed 76 Frenchmen and 59 Moslems, bringing Algeria's death totals in the past three years...
...France and Algeria Sept. 17 was circled on the calendar and engraved on many a mind. That is the day when the U.N. General Assembly gathers again in Manhattan, and last week both sides in the Algerian dispute were busily preparing their cases...
...French were not the only salesmen on the road. Two Algerian rebel leaders showed up in neutral Stockholm. Rebel Leader Ferhat Abbas, in Montevideo, announced: "We have decided to knock at all Western doors, even of the United States. But if our appeals are not crowned with success, we will go to Moscow to embrace the serpent itself, ready for anything that will obtain liberty, just like Morocco and Tunisia...