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"You Too." Ben Bella saw little of Castro's hungry, rundown island during his day in Cuba. Most of the time was spent huddled with Castro officialdom. Castro and Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticós were particularly insistent that Ben Bella agree to a specific denunciation of the U.S...
For its part, the F.L.N. agreed to: 1) a three-year transition period during which the French army will gradually withdraw from Algeria; 2) lease special bases to France, e.g., the naval port of Mers-el-Kebir, the Reggan nuclear test site in the Sahara; 3) accept as Algerian citizens...
Burned Bodies. An overwhelmingly affirmative vote is expected, especially since the Europeans will probably abstain. The French government will then formally hand over sovereignty to the F.L.N. The first of the F.L.N. exiles-including the 35,000-man F.L.N. army based in Tunisia and Morocco-will return home. The referendum...
> France gives up its claim to the Algerian naval base of Mers-el-Kebir as a kind of French Gibraltar, instead settles for a 30-to 40-year lease.
Nearly all the civilian administrators prudently disappeared or refused to cooperate. Challe dispatched a squad to capture Admiral Jean-Marie Querville, commander of the Mediterranean fleet. Querville hid behind a tree in his garden and escaped to the Algiers harbor. Soon he got a call from Challe inviting him to...