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...probably be stubborn, soft-spoken Ahmed Francis, 49, who has spent the past four years as the F.L.N.'s chief fund raiser and accountant. A World War II French army medical officer and former Deputy in the French Assembly, Francis is a close personal friend of rebel "Premier" Ferhat Abbas, and a member of the F.L.N.'s moderate faction...
...Lake of Geneva, which lies between France and Switzerland. The lake water is blue and sparkling, the air bracing, the snow-capped Alps rise just beyond. Best of all, these resort towns are only a short boat ride from Montreux in Switzerland, where the F.L.N.'s "provisional" Premier, Ferhat Abbas, has long had an apartment. Thus the talks can take place, as pride demands, in France, but the F.L.N. delegation can live on Swiss territory, free of the French police surveillance that made life miserable for them at last year's abortive talks in Melun...
...Gaulle closely questioned a recent Tunisian emissary on this very point. To another visitor, De Gaulle made clear his willingness to build up the stature of Ferhat Abbas in the F.L.N. as a counterpoise to the extremists. But his personal estimate of Abbas, a onetime druggist from the arid plateau country south of Bougie, is not high. "The pharmacist of Setif," he remarked, "would have made a barely passable Radical deputy-sort of an Algerian Queuille."* Executed Settlement. De Gaulle is moving cautiously toward an eventual face-to-face meeting with Ferhat Abbas. De Gaulle no longer demands a cease...
DURING ten years abroad for TIME, Hong Kong Bureau Chief Stanley Karnow has done the basic reporting for cover stories all over the globe (most recently: Ferhat Abbas, Liu Shao-chi, Robert Menzies, Hong Kong). He rates his latest - this week's biography of Laos' King Savang Vatthana and his beleaguered country - as "undoubtedly the most difficult." The task, says Karnow, was "to create literary order out of an anarchy of anthropological detail, history and legend, incongruous economics, fanciful military information, and political developments that are really complex regional and family rivalries. Trying to put Laos into intelligible...
...Ferhat Abbas was particularly impressed by Bourguiba's account of De Gaulle's position on the Sahara, which the F.L.N. fears France intends to keep. "It is not French sovereignty which is important," De Gaulle had said. "What mat ters is that France should have access to Saharan oil rather than pay for its oil in dollars." The joint communique of the three leaders contained the F.L.N. acceptance of De Gaulle...