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...rebel leaders meeting in hurried conferences in Tunis last week, the referendum was nearly as stunning as to the frightened Europeans in Algeria. Most startling was the undeniable popularity of provisional Premier Ferhat Abbas, whose name became a rallying cry to the suddenly awakened Moslems in Algiers and Oran...
Though nominally Premier of the provisional F.L.N. government, Ferhat Abbas, 61, has been considered a convenient front man by top "Defense Committee" operatives, such as tough, secretive Abdulhafid Boussouf and Lakdar ben Tobbal...
...public, Ferhat Abbas and the F.L.N. have demanded immediate withdrawal of the French army from Algeria, prompt independence, and unquestioned control by the rebels. Privately, they spoke with more realism and greater moderation last week, frankly admitting that some sort of transition period must come before freedom. How would the F.L.N. deal with the 1,000,000 Europeans islanded among Algeria's 10 million Moslems? "We would like to integrate them into the state," insists an F.L.N. spokesman. "After all, they are more Algerian than French...
Ignominious Tow. The conference did not begin with the kind of nourish the principals hoped for. Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and his two satellites, Sekou Toure of Guinea and Mobido Keita of Mali, started a day late from the leafy Guinean capital of Conakry. Ferhat Abbas, President of the "provisional" F.L.N. rebel government of Algeria, took off from Spain in a chartered plane, but had to turn back because of mechanical difficulties. Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of the United Arab Republic and the canniest professional of the lot, was en route by sea in his official yacht Al Hurriyah (Freedom...
...narrow lanes of the casbah. From under thin mattresses and floor boards came hundreds of forbidden flags of the F.L.N. rebels-green-and-white banners bearing a red crescent and star. In bright green paint, slogans were splashed on any and every convenlent wall: "The F.L.N. Forever," "Long Live Ferhat Abbas," "Long Live Moslem Algeria...