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Fearing rejection by French voters in their homeland this week (see above), the European terrorists of the Secret Army Organization tried to minimize its effect in advance. They had long boasted that, except for a few rebels, their Moslem "brothers" in Algeria really were as determined to stay French as they themselves were. They tried desperately to prove their point by moving out of their two city strongholds of Algiers and Oran and gaining a foothold in the Moslem countryside...
Double Jeopardy. During its transition period from French possession to independence (an estimated three to six months), Algeria will be governed by a twelve-man Provisional Executive headed by Moslem Businessman Abderrahmane Fares, 50, released only last month from Fresnes prison, outside Paris. A helicopter touched down last week at the administrative center of Rocher Noir, 25 miles from Algiers, and out stepped Fares, a stooped, balding man in a rumpled grey suit, followed by his attractive French wife and his teen-age son and daughter (another son is a soldier with the F.L.N...
...spit for lunch, Algerian horsemen charged back and forth on the plain below, rising in their saddles to fire their flintlocks in unison at the sky. The contagion spread to the F.L.N. troops on the ridges and crests. and for 20 minutes gunshots echoed in the hills. Moslem children burst into tears and some of the guests looked nervously toward the border, fearing the French might respond by firing in earnest. But French guns remained silent...
...Gaulle named a veteran French diplomat and a recently jailed Moslem businessman to preside over Algeria's difficult transition to nationhood...
Abderrahmane Fares, 50, is chairman of the twelve-man French-Moslem Provisional Executive charged with responsibility for Algeria's administration and the conduct of the referendum (probably in June) in which Algerians are expected to vote overwhelmingly for "independence in cooperation with France." A rotund bon vivant as fluent in French as Arabic, Fares comes from a Berber family (his father was killed fighting with the French army at Verdun in World War I), and at 25 became the first Moslem notary public in Algeria. After the rebellion began in 1954. the French government sent Fares on a lecture...