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What makes terrorism respectable? The main criterion is success. Algeria's Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika is currently president of the U.N. General Assembly partly because terrorism got its way in Algeria. If the French had been able to crush the F.L.N., he would probably be either dead or in prison. None of this should be cited in defense, let alone in praise of terror-only in deference to a terrible reality...
...week to inaugurate the United Nations General Assembly's 29th session, the delegates had little difficulty sorting out and settling on priorities. In his annual report, Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim described the world's economic situation as "a global crisis of extraordinary dimensions." Incoming General Assembly President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria said that "the problems of development are spreading beyond national and continental limits." President Gerald Ford, appearing to deliver "the first of my addresses to the representatives of the world," agreed that "the economy of the world is under unprecedented stress...
...told the North Vietnamese that China is "your reliable rear area," crooned to Albania that "our hearts are closely linked," promised North Korea to "share weal and woe and fight to the end to defeat the common enemy." Last week at a Peking dinner for visiting Algerian Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika, China's Vice Premier Li Hsien-nien made an all-purpose pledge to "stand by the Algerian and other Asian, African and Latin American peoples and the revolutionary people throughout the world...
...with him had gone many of Algeria's top officers. Troops loyal to President Houari Boumediene combed the snow-covered mountain range where Zbiri was last seen, and the government ordered a nationwide manhunt for a list of civilian plotters that included Boumediene's Labor Minister Abdelaziz Zerdani. Flamboyant but Uneducated. Tensions between Boumediene and his army chief had been building ever since the two men combined their forces to overthrow the demagogic Ahmed ben Bella in June 1965. Zbiri, 37, a flamboyant but uneducated Berber tribesman who had fought against the French as a guerrilla chieftain...
Faced with this fact last week was Algerian Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who was on an urgent mission to Ghana hoping to clear the way for the grandest conference of all, an Afro-Asian wingding. The affair, originally scheduled for Algiers in June, had to be postponed until Nov. 5 because of the overthrow of Ahmed ben Bella. But shortly after the new date had been set, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah suddenly put off his own spectacular−the 36-nation Organization of African Unity summit until Oct. 21, which was so close to the Algiers summit that many...