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...outside organization which strives to direct the struggle, I repeat openly what I have made known. If delegates were designated to negotiate the end of hostilities, they would have only to address themselves to the French embassy at Tunis or at Rabat. They would be assured of complete safety, and I guarantee them the freedom to depart...
While President René Coty angrily denounced the "abominable" acts of sabotage, F.L.N. leaders in Cairo and Rabat proudly declared themselves the authors of the terror. Rebel Leader Ferhat Abbas, once regarded as a moderate among the rebels, promised more sabotage. Fearing De Gaulle's skillful wooing of the Moslem population, the F.L.N. apparently hopes to stir up enough hatred and dissension to make a mockery out of all talk of "fraternization...
Last week Algerian rebels even threatened to sabotage French ships and planes everywhere, pointedly warned foreigners to cancel their reservations. "How far is the F.L.N. willing to go?" a TIME correspondent in Rabat asked F.L.N. Leader Abdelhamid Mahri...
...there were signs that the breach might be narrowing. Flying in from foreign refuges as various as Damascus and Switzerland-and carefully avoiding flights that might make an emergency landing on French soil-top leaders of Algeria's rebel National Liberation Front converged on the Moroccan city of Rabat. There, surrounded by Moroccan plainclothesmen, they sat down with representatives of Morocco's dominant Istiqlal Party and Tunisia's Neo-Destour to lay the groundwork for a formal conference in Tangier this week. Prime topic to be discussed at Tangier: prospects for formation of a North African federation...
...spirit. The U.S. is, as the Russians charge, increasing its diplomatic activity in North Africa-not against the French, but in the interest of seeing that events get no further out of hand. In informal backstage chats, U.S. diplomats show their support of Arab moderates. They hope the Rabat conferees will abandon any thought of establishing an Algerian government in exile-which Tunisia, and perhaps Morocco, would be forced to recognize; such a step, the U.S. is convinced, would drive France to break off all relations with them. But for the idea of a North African federation...