Word: evian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proof were needed, the strike was convincing testimony that it was time to resume negotiations with the F.L.N. In the four-week interval since the Evian talks were broken off. De Gaulle has given up talk of a French-run plebiscite, which was at best a wistful hope that pro-French Moslems might vote for some alternative to the F.L.N. He has become convinced, as Coup de Frejac had blurted, that support for the F.L.N. is total, and that the F.L.N. will rule the new Algeria. The only question is: On what terms...
Charles de Gaulle picked up a phone and called his chief delegate at Evian-les-Bains, white-haired Louis Joxe. Break off the talks, he ordered-at least for the moment. De Gaulle was frankly fed up. Day after day, week after week, Algeria's rebel F.L.N. delegation had rejected every French proposal. There would be no special guarantees for the rights of Algeria's 1,000,000 Europeans after independence, the rebels insisted. Nor would the French be allowed to hang on to the vast Sahara region and its oil; the Sahara must become an integral part...
Relaying the boss's orders to the startled F.L.N. contingent across the table in Evian's Hotel du Pare, Joxe was polite but firm. "I have given our position," he said. "I have nothing to add. I suggest, in the present state of our talks, a suspension of our meetings and an interval for reflection...
...suspect Algerians into paddy wagons and carted them off to jail. Right-wing activists set off six plastic bombs. In Algiers, Police Commissioner Roger Gavoury was stabbed to death in his apartment just eight days after beginning to investigate the European terrorist group called the Secret Armed Organization. At Evian-les-Bains, as snow swirled outside the windows, French and Algerian F.L.N. delegates sat arguing around a wide conference table and seemed to be getting practically nowhere...
...only one point, was there total agreement. Both sides indicated their willingness to stay at Evian and talk "until a solution is reached...