Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discordantly through some 60 unfamiliar national anthems. Bureaucrats frantically cabled Paris to find out what had happened to 200 new Citroën limousines ordered for the great occasion. And Des Pins, a once tranquil seaside resort where the Algerian government insisted to the bitter end that the second Afro-Asian Conference would take place this week on schedule, looked like a manic blend of Hellzapoppin and The Last Days of Pompeii...
Khoya Quandary. For all the herculean effort, the Afro-Asian* "summit" was doomed in advance to be a colossal anticlimax. As one Arab diplomat observed: "You can't have a coup and a conference." Yet that was exactly what Colonel Houari Boumedienne hoped to achieve. Since every invitation to the conference had been personally issued by President Ahmed ben Bella, the man whom Boumedienne had deposed a week earlier, many heads of state doubted the propriety of attending it as guests of the new regime; others were frankly worried about their safety. Even before the coup, the nine former...
General Cleanup. Only two days before in Oran, he had delivered a speech in which he confidently asserted that the nation was "more united than ever before." He had been looking forward to playing host next week to 3,000 delegates from some 60 nations at the second Afro-Asian Conference, and thousands of workers were laboring 24 hours a day on the construction of an 18,000-sq.-yd. meeting hall and on a general cleanup and trash-removal campaign in Algiers...
...Bella would meet the fate reserved by history to all despots." A communique signed by Boumedienne charged Ben Bella with an arm-long list of faults: "bad management, waste of public funds, instability, demagogy, anarchy, lying, improvisation, mystification, threats, blackmail and uncertainty about tomorrow." In an aside to the Afro-Asian delegates, Boumedienne said the show would go on as planned but now it would not be "cynically exploited by one man for his personal ends to the detriment of the country's higher interests...
...last week, well ahead of schedule, flew Red China's Premier Chou Enlai. His original intention, after a "friendly visit" fortnight ago with Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere, had been to spend three weeks visiting other African leaders, ending his tour with a final appearance at the Afro-Asian Conference of nonaligned nations on June 29 in Algiers. Then, at a rally in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's capital, he declared that "an exceedingly favorable situation for revolution prevails not only in Africa, but also in Asia and Latin America...