Wednesday. March 1, 1961 University Daily Korean
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Tunisian Head Calls For Algerian Peace
PARIS — (UPI) — Hopes for an early end to the Algerian War today centered around a meeting, expected imminent, between Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba and Algerian rebel leader Ferhat Abbas.
The meeting would be the second step in Bouguiba's role as a mediator in efforts to halt the six-year-old war. He conferred for five hours Monday with French President Charles de Gualle, and said afterwards De Gualle was ready to "go the limit" to reach a settlement.
POLITICAL SOURCES saw this as an indication that direct talks between France and the rebel provisional government headed by Abbas would begin soon.
But, as one Western diplomat said,
"The question now is what Abbas will think of what De Gualle told Bourguiba."
No plans have been announced for the Abbas-Bourguiba meeting, but the two leaders usually keep close contact. Bourguiba has openly aided the rebel side in the Algerian war for several years, and Abba's provisional government has its headquarters in Tunis.
The two men had been expected to meet in Rabat, Morocco, yesterday after the funeral of King Mohammed V, but Abbas did not show up for the service as expected.
BOURGUIBA SAID, however that new developments in the Algerian situation could be expected "in a matter of days."
French sources said the first French-rebel contacts might take the form of a series of meetings, possibly in a neutral country, between lower-level officials. These talks would lead to a meeting between De Gaulle and Abbas.
De Gaulle's plans extend beyond an end to the Algerian war and an independent Algerian republic, diplomatic sources said.
They said he hopes to create a French-North African political complex including Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and The Sahara, whose rich oil resources France has just begun to tap.
French sources said Bourguiba was favorable to the project.
De Gaulle was reported to have argued that Algeria would not be able to stand on its own feet politically or economically for a long time after independence.
DE GUALLE WAS REPORTED to have discussed this plan with Bouriguiba, along with another longer-term Mediterranean project which would include Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Libya in the political group.
He is said to have asserted that Algeria would be much better off in some form of political and economic association with France and its North African neighbors.
In Oran, Algeria, police ordered an end today to a Moslem work stoppage that sparked pro-rebel rioting in which two European women were burned alive.
THE INCLUSION of the Sahara into the grouping would solve the problem of conflicting claims to its oil resources by all three of the North African countries as well as France.
The work stoppage, called as a sign of mourning for the death of King Mohammed V of Morocco, touched off violence which caused the deaths of three Europeans and injuries to three persons, including a 5-year-old child.
A 10 P.M. CURFEW was enforced in the Moslem sections of Oran last night and police ordered all Moslem workers to return to work today. All shops and other business were told to re-open.
The word to stop work had been spread through Moslem communities in all cities in Algeria, but had little effect except in Oran and Tlemcen, which are close to the Moroccan border.
SEVERAL HUNDRED Moslem mourners gathered in a street in the Moslem section yesterday,
shouting at shopkeepers who had not closed their stores to do so. The clamor became more violent and the mob yelled its support for Algerian Moslem rebel leader Ferhat Abbas.
AT THIS POINT, a car with three Europeans drove by. The demonstrators surged toward the vehicle and overturned it. They poured gasoline on the automobile and set it on fire. Then the crowd prevented the persons inside from opening a door to escape.
Police arrived in time to rescue one of the occupants, a 65-year-old baker. He was badly burned but alive. The baker's 55-year-old wife and another woman died inside the car.
Police broke up the demonstration after one of the mob had wounded a policeman in the head with a pistol shot.
Earlier, a 5-year-old European child being driven to school was injured when the car skirted the demonstration and was stoned. In another incident a European farm manager was axed to death near Oran.
Ceylon Gets Lady Envoy
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Diplomatic relations between the United States and Ceylon soon will be on a woman-to-woman footing.
President Kennedy has announced his intention to appoint a career diplomat, Frances Willis, as ambassador to Ceylon, the only country in the world with a woman as prime minister.
THE APPOINTMENT is precedent-shattering. It is the first time the United States has picked a woman ambassador to serve in an Asian country. It also is the first time a woman has headed an American Embassy in a country with a woman head of government.
Miss Willis, who has been in the foreign service since 1927, will present her credentials to Madame Sirimavo Bandaranaike who became prime minister last July. The 45-year-old Ceylonese woman is the widow of Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike, who was assassinated.
She had never been in politics before she ran for her husband's post. Despite the lower social status of women in the east, Madame Bandaranake swept the boards.
FOR MISS WILLIS, it will be a new language of diplomacy. She will go to Colombo from Oslo, Norway, where she has served as ambassador since 1957. She was well-liked in Norway and diplomatic reports say the Norwegians did not want her to leave.
Tall, graying and schoolmarmish in appearance, Miss Willis has climbed the diplomatic ladder, startling as a vice consul in Chile. During World War II, she served as assistant chief of the state department's division of Western European affairs.
Do-It-Yourself Violin;
$5.95 Plus Patience
That's right, $5.95 — together with a little glue, a lot of patience and half a day of puttering.
CHICAGO — (UPI) — The man said $5.95 for the Stradivarius.
The "Stradivarius" is three-fifths the size of a real violin, so it's too small for an adult to handle. But, its distributer said, it gives an inquisitive youngster an opportunity to learn how a musical instrument works.
The do-it-yourself, all-plastic "Stradivarius," named after the world-famous 18th century craftsman from Cremona, was one of the items being shown at the 24th Annual Trade Fair in Chicago.
If the amateur builder makes a mistake in construction, his sonata will be a flat one and he must take the violin apart and reassemble it.