Word: evian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into its former colony. While French aid is to be drastically reduced after Jan. 1, France will continue to be Algeria's biggest market and capital source. Thus, what chiefly worries Western diplomats in Algiers is Ben Bella's contemptuous disregard for the Evian agreements that set the terms for France's withdrawal from Algeria. The Premier, who was still a prisoner of the French when the accord was drawn up, says vaguely that it needs to be revised, but simply ignores any of its provisions that seem inconvenient. Such gestures as his seizure of Algiers...
Courageous Stand. On the subject of Algeria's relations with France, and on the rights of Europeans in Algeria guaranteed under the Evian Agreement, Ben Bella sounded eminently reasonable. In several meetings, he urged France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville to help persuade French industrialists and technicians to aid in reopening Algeria's closed factories, and to see that French doctors and teachers returned to their posts. Though an avowed socialist, Ben Bella insisted that Algeria would have "a mixed economy including both state and private industry." In an hour-long chat with Russia...
Garrison Joys. Though he had temporarily disposed of one opponent, Ben Bella had plenty left. The rugged Berber guerrillas of Wilaya 3 were still holding out in the impregnable mountains of Kabylia. led by hard-bitten Belkacem Krim. who negotiated the Evian agreements with France and may still have the power to oust Ben Bella. Also ranged against Ben Bella is the bulk of organized labor in Algeria, led by realistic unionists such as Ali Yahia, an ex-schoolteacher who believes that living standards can be maintained only through cooperation with France. Even more bitterly opposed to the Politburo...
...socialism means the liquidation of privileges." But, said Ben Bella, there would still be a "place for a free, capitalist economy. We do not intend to nationalize." And in his most important promise. Ben Bella vowed to maintain Algeria's ties to France, as specified in the Evian agreements. "The French government must help us,'' he said. "I believe it is disposed...
Delayed March. In his speech, Ben Bella again publicly affirmed his acceptance of the Evian agreements between France and the F.L.N. Provisional Government, but denounced Premier Benkhedda and his Cabinet as trying "to delay the forward march of our revolution...