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Abbas joined the rebels only five years ago, after a lifetime as an Algerian moderate who seemed unable to reconcile his love of French culture with his Moslem inheritance. He speaks far better French than Arabic, has a French wife. The pressure of other F.L.N. leaders last year induced Abbas, discouraged about rebel prospects in the endless war, to journey to Peking and appeal for Red Chinese help. Abbas hoped that the threat of a Red alliance would force the U.S., Britain and the United Nations to bring pressure on France to negotiate...
...rebels would maintain economic ties with France "because of the natural flow of goods between the two countries and because it would be absurd to de stroy existing markets." But soothing words do not obscure some ultimate goals: the nationalization of Algerian banks, the conversion of European vineyards to Moslem wheat fields, and the expropriation of large, European-owned estates, which will then be parceled out to Moslem farmers...
...French voters who abstained. In the previous referendum, abstentions ran to 15%, and the balance can be accounted for by bad weather and local issues. But the abstentions in Algeria were another matter. In the big cities of Algiers and Oran, hundreds of thousands of Moslems stayed stubbornly at home in obedience to the orders of Ferhat Abbas and the rebel F.L.N. Out in the countryside, many Moslems who did vote had to be rounded up by the army and trucked to the polls. "There were two referendums," said a Moslem. "One in France for De Gaulle. One in Algeria...
...Algeria, the voting was by zones and was spread over three days to guarantee maximum control. The rebel F.L.N. ordered Moslems to abstain, emphasized their point by shooting dead the Moslem director of a polling place. In a few villages, like Djemaa Saharij, Moslems refused to budge from their homes. At Gueltet, F.L.N. raiders shot up a crowd of Moslems waiting to vote and were driven off by French troops. The cost: eleven dead. In Mila, the French opened fire on a band of Moslems waving the green-and-white F.L.N. flag and killed four. Army trucks brought throngs...
Last week Martini was buried with Moslem solemnity. His wife is his sole heir, and Paris wondered whether Helene Martini would sell and run, or stay and fight for her neon inheritance. At week's end she gave her answer. "I am keeping my husband's business," said Helene firmly. In a warning to Corsican and North African rivals, she added "I will fight them all. I am by nature a fighter...