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Meeting in Melun, 30 miles southeast of Paris, the F.L.N.'s Ahmed Boumendjel spent five days in talks with Roger Moris, De Gaulle's Secretary of State for Algeria. The exchanges were so frosty that the Algerians complained of "a Panmunjom atmosphere." Boumendjel asked whether F.L.N. "Premier" Ferhat Abbas, if he came to Paris, would be free to move about, whether he could be sure of treating with President de Gaulle personally, whether F.L.N. negotiators could confer with Ben Bella, the F.L.N. leader whom the French kidnaped four years ago on a flight between Morocco and Tunisia. Moris...
...renewed and more generous offer of peace negotiations (TIME, June 27). At first they refused to fly in an official French plane. Then, taking passage in a Tunis Air DC-4, the rebels finally dispatched a three-man "advance guard" headed by Ahmed Boumendjel, 52, who is "Premier"' Ferhat Abbas' version of Jim Hagerty. When their plane finally landed at Orly (one engine conked out en route), the rebel delegates were hastily whisked off by helicopter to Melun, where Roger Moris, De Gaulle's Secretary of State for Algeria, was waiting...
...Boumendjel's prime task was to find out whether, if Ferhat Abbas himself came to Paris, he could be sure of negotiating with De Gaulle personally. To the rebels, this was far more than a matter of prestige; the rebels have made it plain that they will not agree to a cease-fire unless De Gaulle makes good on his implicit promise to give the F.L.N. an opportunity to participate in the political referendum that will determine Algeria's future. But only hours after the rebels accepted De Gaulle's negotiation offer, Premier Michel Debré himself...
...town hall, right-wing settlers formed a new "Front de l'Algérie Francaise" dedicated to "keeping Algeria in the Republic," within three days declared they had signed up 100,000 members-including several hundred army officers. Threatened Algerian Deputy René Vinciguerra: "Let De Gaulle see Ferhat Abbas in Paris. We don't mind. But the minute he allows Abbas back in Algeria, we will really move...
...better than success, for the spectacle of the F.I.N. equipped with squadrons of Communist MIGs would have alarmed many of their foreign sympathizers, lost them much of the neutral and Western support they have managed to win.) Last week, as F.I.N. leaders gathered at the Tunis villa of "Premier" Ferhat Abbas, emissaries from the pro-rebel governments of Morocco and Tunisia turned up to urge them to fly to Paris and negotiate with De'Gaulle. The rebels, tattered and restless, gave word that they would seriously consider...