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...Khedda promptly disappeared into the underground, surfaced a few months later in the Kabylia Mountains as the political commissar of an F.L.N. guerrilla band headed by famed Belkacem Krim. Moving on to Algiers, Ben Khedda helped plan and carry out the ruthless terrorist campaign in which killings of Europeans ran as high as a hundred a month. He lived under four aliases, grew a large mustache, boldly frequented the Cafe Otomatic, a favorite hangout of European rightists. The F.L.N. grip on Algiers was not broken until the summer of 1957. when General Jacques Massu and his French paratroops began...
...F.L.N.'s chief negotiator, stocky ex-Guerrilla Belkacem Krim, was clearly taken aback. "We do not agree at all. Not at all. This is a unilateral move," he spluttered. Krim proposed that "working sessions" continue the following day. But De Gaulle was adamant; he plainly wanted to let the Algerians stew for awhile. Perhaps, suggested Joxe, everyone might get together again in ten to 15 days, but the tone of his farewell words as he flew off to Paris was clear enough: don't call us, we'll call...
...shaven, nervous, speaking in halting French, Belkacem Krim was clearly a better guerrilla leader than a diplomat; he understood little of the give and take of negotiation. Yet last week Krim was winning good marks for his leadership of the F.L.N. delegation at the French lakeside resort of Evian-les-Bains. France's Algerian Affairs Minister Louis Joxe was impressed by Krim's obvious sincerity, his single-mindedness, and the studied moderation of his language. "He and his kind were hunted like wolves for years on end," said one French delegate. "It would be futile to expect...
Still nervous about having rebels in town, the security-conscious Swiss refused to allow Krim to hold regular press conferences, instead set up a closed TV circuit between Krim's heavily guarded villa on the Geneva lakefront and the Maison de la Presse, three miles away, where Krim's image was projected on a huge screen in the main auditorium. First subject on Krim's mind was De Gaulle's unilateral declaration of a cease-fire in Algeria. Instead of welcoming an end to the fighting, Krim denounced it as "blackmail," called it "premature from...
What worries Krim and the F.L.N. is that guerrilla forces traditionally disintegrate unless they are under constant military pressure. Should fighting cease, the rugged F.L.N. bands will be tempted to lay down their arms and abandon their mountain hideouts, thus leaving the F.L.N. without a military force in being. To meet the threat of peace, the rebels last week redoubled their efforts in Algeria with a rash of isolated assassinations and bomb throwings. At Miliana, 90 miles from Algiers, rebels ambushed a convoy, killing eleven gendarmes. At Sidi Aich, in rugged Kabylia, 14 Moslem soldiers in the French army deserted...