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Like two boxers eying each other across the ring, France's Charles de Gaulle and Algerian rebel "Premier" Ferhat Abbas last week sat waiting for the next diplomatic round. Silent hauteur was Paris' first response to the counterproposals with which Abbas and his "Cabinet" had met De Gaulle's offer of Algerian self-determination (TIME, Sept. 28). The rebels were still insisting that if France wanted a cease-fire in the five-year-old Algerian civil war, it must deal directly with their "provisional government." but this De Gaulle had barred from the beginning. Equally unacceptable...
...awaiting the arrival of M'Hammed Yazid, "Minister of Information" in the F.L.N. and its liaison officer at the U.N. Flying in from New York, Yazid suavely brushed off a horde of reporters and sped away in a black Mercedes to a week of discussion with rebel "Premier" Ferhat Abbas and his "Cabinet." Their talk revolved around two points: if they rejected De Gaulle's offer out of hand, they would certainly forfeit most of the international sympathy they had won for their cause; but if they accepted all of De Gaulle's terms, including his refusal...
...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...