Word: ferhat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...burly Belkacem Krim. Already approved by the French Cabinet, the agreement needed only the approval of four-fifths of the Revolutionary Council, which could not reject it without also rejecting Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda who, only six months ago, was designated by the Council to replace ill and aging (62) Ferhat Abbas in the task of swiftly bringing the war to a close...
...Algerian-I know this-who does not believe that the Sahara should be a part of Algeria." It was a breathtaking concession which, as his critics grumbled, would probably have produced an armistice long ago, almost certainly would have forestalled the ouster last month of F.L.N. Boss Ferhat Abbas in favor of the more radical Benyoussef Benkhedda...
...Shared Risks. Ben Khedda believed that the F.L.N. government should stay inside Algeria, sharing the same risks as the F.L.N. fighting men. But his terrorist campaign had failed, and he and his policies were temporarily discredited. Instead, a government in exile was set up in neighboring Tunisia under respectable Ferhat Abbas, who hoped to win foreign support through nonviolent diplomacy and to convince the French through Gallic logic. Ben Khedda was shunted to a minor Cabinet post, and became the first F.L.N. dignitary to lead an official mission to Red China. After touring other Communist countries as an ambassador...
Still Time. The change is evidence of the increasing self-confidence of the F.L.N. younger generation, who feel that they no longer need the respectable, moderate "front'' of Ferhat Abbas. They resented the fact that when Algeria's Moslems spontaneously demonstrated for independence last December, their rallying cry was "Vive Ferhat Abbas!'' This totally unexpected triumph of the F.L.N.'s "grand old man" alarmed the younger militants, who had installed him as Premier only to gain his fagade of respectability. If Abbas returned to Algiers as head of state, they argued, his personal popularity...
Belatedlv. French officials took a regretful backward look at Ferhat Abbas. Sighed one: "He was a man with whom we could have come to an understanding." France's stiff-necked President Charles de Gaulle may find that he blundered badly in not having dealt with Abbas-while there was still time...