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Nine arch conspirators-five of them sentenced to death in absentia by French military courts-lined up self-consciously in a room in Tunis and let photographers take their pictures. They were the leaders of Algeria's National Liberation Front. With Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba offering them physical sanctuary and diplomatic sponsorship before the world, the FLN was trying to assume the robes of respectability. Last fortnight the FLN leaders invited French journalists in for coffee, showed them round their newly expanded headquarters, and announced that three of their members would leave shortly for New York (traveling...
With respectability, the FLN leaders have not taken on moderation. Even Host Bourguiba was openly distressed at the FLN's manifesto refusing all negotiations unless France first recognized Algeria's independence. Nor was there any sign that they would call off the savage campaign of terror and murder they have loosed on the rival MNA (a more moderate Algerian nationalist group supported, FLN leaders claim, by the French) in France itself. MNA sympathizers have been gunned down in full daylight on Paris avenues and on Metro platforms. Since the first of the year, 570 Algerians have been murdered...
Some American sources admit privately it it possible some arms may fall into rebel hands despite Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba's pledges to the contrary...
Last week Bourguiba's government accepted an offer of arms from Egypt's Nasser, even though Bourguiba himself has long resented Nasser's internal intriguing in French North Africa on behalf of Cairo-centered Arab nationalism. Within three days of taking Nasser's arms, President Bourguiba was able to inform his people that the U.S. had decided to help Tunisia get arms. They would be "Western arms, whether from Italy or elsewhere," he said, and they would arrive by October...
Repudiating any thought of "bargaining" over Tunisia's loyalty to the West, Bourguiba said in his weekly radio broadcast: "The best proof that we did not want to depart from our position of wisdom is that even when our arms crisis was most acute, we negotiated with a Czech economic mission and did not even raise the question of arms." As for the "small quantity" of Egyptian arms, Bourguiba blandly said: "We accepted them as a fraternal gesture. The Egyptian offer helped us by its timeliness, but we know that Egypt herself is seeking arms for her own needs...