Word: evian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shaven, nervous, speaking in halting French, Belkacem Krim was clearly a better guerrilla leader than a diplomat; he understood little of the give and take of negotiation. Yet last week Krim was winning good marks for his leadership of the F.L.N. delegation at the French lakeside resort of Evian-les-Bains. France's Algerian Affairs Minister Louis Joxe was impressed by Krim's obvious sincerity, his single-mindedness, and the studied moderation of his language. "He and his kind were hunted like wolves for years on end," said one French delegate. "It would be futile to expect...
...F.L.N. will take advantage of the truce to intensify its attacks. It's madness to believe that it would do anything else." Even Moslem sympathizers were disappointed by the F.L.N.'s rejection of De Gaulle's offer of a ceasefire. If the talks at Evian end in a stalemate, the F.L.N.'s stubborn decision to keep fighting may backfire...
...week's end French Delegate Joxe made a flying trip to Paris to see De Gaulle, returned to tell newsmen at Evian that "all interested persons," i.e., the F.L.N.. will be consulted "in detail" before an Algerian referendum on a choice between independence, association or "Francization." He implied that France was prepared to accept joint French-F.L.N. supervision of the referendum. Joxe also sought to calm F.L.N. fears of a partition of Algeria on racial lines. Though citing India as a nation that had been forced to accept partition, Joxe maintained that France would do its best...
...F.L.N. delegates plan to fly by helicopter each day across the lake to the French resort town of Evian-les-Bains, where, in the Hotel du Pare, at a table purposely made so wide that it will be physically impossible for delegates to shake hands with their opposite numbers, the Algerian rebels and the French will at last try to negotiate an end to the six-year-old Algerian...
...F.L.N. zealots. But after years of house arrest in France, he now espouses "association" with the French, has lost nearly all influence in Algeria itself; now his support comes chiefly from Algerian workers in France. Angrily, the F.L.N. dismissed the M.N.A. as "colonialist lackeys" and declared that the Evian talks were off unless France "makes an official statement clarifying the meaning of M. Joxe's declaration...