Word: ferhat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle's room for maneuver was small. Extremists in the rebel F.L.N., in one of those unmistakable gestures meant to show that they had no intention of compromising, shot down 67-year-old Senator Cherif Benhabyles, an Algerian, in the streets of Vichy. A friend of F.L.N. Leader Ferhat Abbas, Benhabyles had offered to be a link in discussions with the French...
...Admission. Nonetheless, in his oblique fashion, Charles de Gaulle seemed to be indicating that he knew something that everyone else had missed. A heady scent of behind-the-scenes bargaining was in the air. Modifying the rebels' previous insistence that any negotiations must be held in neutral territory, Ferhat Abbas, "Prime Minister" of the Algerian rebel government, announced that he would be willing to go to Paris to talk with De Gaulle after preliminary contacts in a neutral country...
...subjection. After him came the face of Black Africa nationalism- Ghana's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah in 1953. In the north, the same anticolonial stir-ups agitated the Arabs, and TIME showed the faces of King Mohammed V of Morocco, which won its independence in 1956, and of Ferhat Abbas, head of Algeria's rebel government-in-exile, whose story is not yet finished. Now comes young, vigorous Sékou Touré of Guinea, the man who said "No" to De Gaulle and who has become one of the most powerful figures in the reversed "scramble...
...Gaulle above all men knew, he had taken only one more calculated step down a long road. In Cairo the F.L.N.'s government in exile, which had been proclaiming its eagerness to talk peace, now betrayed its fear that De Gaulle had the upper hand. Premier Ferhat Abbas bluntly rejected the idea of going to Paris, which would seem like surrender, insisted that negotiations take place in "some neutral country." Yet De Gaulle had placed the F.L.N. rebels in a delicate position. For the first time, Paris had a government not about to topple at any moment...
...Among the newspapers recently confiscated in Algeria was Le Monde of Paris. Le Monde's of fense: reprinting TIME'S Oct. 13 interview with Algerian Rebel Leader Ferhat Abbas...