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...France would not negotiate under threats. Instead of backing down in humiliation, Bourguiba gave France 24 hours to talk terms. From the Tunisian Parliament he won unanimous approval for a blockade of the Bizerte naval base. For good measure, he put in his claim for a piece of the Sahara. Tunisia is a small country, with only 3.7 million people, compared with Algeria's ten million and Morocco's 11.6 million. But Bourguiba was anxious for his share, fearing that France might be getting ready to give the whole thing to the F.L.N. Said Bourguiba...
...would be a "last recourse." In fact, there were reports that the stalled peace talks would resume in a few days, even though the quiet contacts that had continued between the French and the F.L.N. had produced no yielding on important differences, particularly on what would happen to the Sahara...
...week after week, Algeria's rebel F.L.N. delegation had rejected every French proposal. There would be no special guarantees for the rights of Algeria's 1,000,000 Europeans after independence, the rebels insisted. Nor would the French be allowed to hang on to the vast Sahara region and its oil; the Sahara must become an integral part of the new Algerian nation. As for France's unilateral ceasefire in the Algerian war announced last month, the F.L.N. replied by stepping up their own killing: in the 19 days following the opening of the Evian conference...
Last April, fiddle-footed as ever, he flew out of the Sahara, chasing down one more story from the Far East. But the hunt was over. Stricken with pneumonia in Tokyo, he was rushed by plane to a hospital in Zurich, his summer home. There, Karl von Wiegand died last week at 86, the last of his breed, a legend somewhat larger than life...
Marx & Meany. Since the agenda skirted such practical labor matters as collective bargaining, the closed shop or overtime, the rafters rang for five days with inflamed speeches denouncing aggression in Cuba, the French in Algeria, French atomic tests in the Sahara-and, of course, colonialism, a subject that set the Ghana-Guinea radicals off in full cry against I.C.F.T.U. and its Western ties. Charging that I.C.F.T.U. was out to sabotage Africa's labor movement, not encourage it, they argued that any African union that joins the A.A.T.U.F. must cut all its ties with foreign labor groups...