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...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...
...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...