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Like most F.L.N. chiefs, he is in poor health from years in the underground, and last week was still convalescing from a recent gall bladder operation. His top assistants are also "moderates": burly, talented Lawyer Ahmed Boumendjel, 53. whose brother "committed suicide" while in the hands of French paratroops, but who is himself, nevertheless, a devotee of French culture, with a French wife and a passion for Paris; and Left-Winger Saad Dahlab, 38, a former merchant and a member of one of Algeria's wealthiest Moslem families...
...examine what Algeria's future relations with France should be." The "provisional" Premier of the Algerian Republic, Ferhat Abbas, and his F.L.N. Foreign Minister, Belkacem Krim, cut short their tour of Southeast Asia to rush back to Tunis for discussions with Bourguiba's man, Masmoudi. Burly Ahmed Boumendjel, who had headed the F.L.N. delegation to the Melun fiasco, flew from Tunis to Switzerland, was reportedly in direct touch with a De Gaulle representative at the French embassy in Bern...
Meeting in Melun, 30 miles southeast of Paris, the F.L.N.'s Ahmed Boumendjel spent five days in talks with Roger Moris, De Gaulle's Secretary of State for Algeria. The exchanges were so frosty that the Algerians complained of "a Panmunjom atmosphere." Boumendjel asked whether F.L.N. "Premier" Ferhat Abbas, if he came to Paris, would be free to move about, whether he could be sure of treating with President de Gaulle personally, whether F.L.N. negotiators could confer with Ben Bella, the F.L.N. leader whom the French kidnaped four years ago on a flight between Morocco and Tunisia. Moris...
...Boumendjel's prime task was to find out whether, if Ferhat Abbas himself came to Paris, he could be sure of negotiating with De Gaulle personally. To the rebels, this was far more than a matter of prestige; the rebels have made it plain that they will not agree to a cease-fire unless De Gaulle makes good on his implicit promise to give the F.L.N. an opportunity to participate in the political referendum that will determine Algeria's future. But only hours after the rebels accepted De Gaulle's negotiation offer, Premier Michel Debré himself...
...Ahmed Boumendjel and his bosses clearly recognized, the only man in the French government with both the desire and the capacity to give the people of France and Algeria the peace they so desperately want is Charles de Gaulle himself...