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...rebel Algerian F.L.N. last week abruptly turned left. After three years under the relatively benign leadership of Premier Ferhat Abbas, 61, an ex-druggist who speaks better French than Arabic and has a middle-class habit of falling asleep after a good dinner, control shifted to a clutch of hard-eyed terrorists who had survived street battles and mountain skir mishes in the seven-year war against the French...
Mustached Man. Abbas' bland parliamentary manner had brought the French to negotiations but not to terms. Since a 1957 auto accident in Morocco, he has increasingly suffered from headaches, dizzy spells, and an inability to concentrate for long periods at a time. Clearly, Ferhat Abbas and the other moderates of his Cabinet had outlived their usefulness to the F.L.N.'s tough revolutionaries...
...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...
They think that the F.L.N. is already hopelessly compromised with the Communists. Half of the rebellion's $80 million annual budget comes from Arab countries, but the other half comes from Communist China. F.L.N. leaders, from provisional "Premier" Ferhat Abbas on down, have been toasted in Peking, and hundreds of wounded rebels are currently recuperating in Czech and Soviet hospitals. Even the F.L.N. labor movement, though a member of the anti-Communist International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, will have sent 1,000 organizers behind the Iron Curtain for training by 1962. (The F.L.N. points out, justly, that...
...superslick yellow-and-red diesel trains, just delivered from France, as thousands of Moroccans cheered. Then Tito steamed off for six days of talks with President Habib Bourguiba in Tunis and with the Algerian F.L.N. rebel leaders. Urging negotiations with France, Tito told F.L.N. Chief Ferhat Abbas: "You must be bold enough to know when to call...