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...with patience, skill, trickery, courage and a never-failing sense of destiny, finally this week could announce the ceasefire. In a seven-minute radio and TV speech, he declared that it was France's "national interest" which had commanded her to let the Algerians govern themselves. He asked the million disaffected Europeans to stay on and cooperate with the new Algeria. Paying tribute to "the glorious losses" sustained by the French army, De Gaulle applauded its discipline, despite "the solicitations of criminal adventurers." He alluded to General Raoul Salan's terrorist S.A.O. by announcing that a common-sense...
...cease-fire negotiators wrangled at Evian-les-Bains. The major issues had all been settled: a transition period for Algeria, leased bases for the French, guarantees for Europeans. But last-minute stumbling blocks appeared. Among the chief problems was the composition of the Provisional Executive, which is to govern Algeria during the ceasefire; on this, the F.L.N. demanded a twelve-man French-Moslem committee with an F.L.N. nominee as chairman. Another issue: the powers and strength of the Force Locale to police the ceasefire; here the F.L.N. wanted more Moslem members, while Paris wanted a French commander. Compromise finally settled...
officials say defiantly: "We demand the right to govern ourselves poorly." Mr. Everybody. For the near future, at least, a vast share of these problems will be the burden of Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda. Many observers feel that Benkhedda may not last as Premier, may be replaced by someone with a greater popular following or a stronger gift for political intrigue. One possible candidate: suave, wily Mohammed ben Bella, the F.L.N. 's "iron man," who is scheduled to be released from five years of French imprisonment at the ceasefire, along with four other F.L.N. leaders. But for a tran sition...
...Except for the Communists, no faction really wanted a serious government crisis before De Gaulle either won or definitely lost his Algerian gamble. But now France is once again open to the backbiting kind of party politicking that De Gaulle despises ("How can you govern a country that has 227 different varieties of cheeses?" he once contemptuously asked...
...notorious European leaders in the terrorist Secret Army Organization, 2) the F.L.N. wants a firm, detailed timetable on the French agreement to evacuate its army from Algeria within three years, 3) both sides must agree on the Moslem-European membership of the twelve-man Provisional Executive, which will temporarily govern Algeria...