Word: messali
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...M.N.A is headed by bearded Messali Hadj, 63, who was 'once as fanatic as the F.L.N. zealots. But after years of house arrest in France, he now espouses "association" with the French, has lost nearly all influence in Algeria itself; now his support comes chiefly from Algerian workers in France. Angrily, the F.L.N. dismissed the M.N.A. as "colonialist lackeys" and declared that the Evian talks were off unless France "makes an official statement clarifying the meaning of M. Joxe's declaration...