Word: ait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constitution to a national referendum, announced a landslide (98%) majority for approval. But in the Kabylia mountains east of Algiers, fiercely independent Berbers staged a surprisingly effective boycott. Disappointed because Ben Bella has done little for their war-shattered region, and egged on by Marxist sympathizing Deputy Hussein Ait-Ahmed, who recently broke with Ben Bella, more than 50% of the half-million Kabylia voters stayed away from the polls. Said one Berber ex-guerrilla: "Independence? All we have got from it is the national flag...
...Moroccan border, that he had formed a seven-man politburo that would oust the "usurpers" of the provisional government (G.P.R.A.) from power and run the country until the formation of a constituent assembly. Premier Benkhedda was specifically excluded from the politburo, and only two members of his government (Ait Akhmed and Mohammed Boudiaf) were in; the rest were all Ben Bella men. Meanwhile, the military forces loyal to Ben Bella solidified control in the wilayas (zones) of both western and eastern Algeria...
...outbreaks in cycles, their peaks occur at different intervals and almost never co incide. Outbreaks of Asian, or A2, flu (which has supplanted the older plain A and A1, or "A prime") run in two-or three-year cycles; they may flare up again later this winter or w?ait until next. Type B flu runs in four-to six-year cycles. The U.S. has had none to speak of since 1955, so an outbreak was due this winter. The virus was ready and waiting. As a Public Health Service spokesman put it: "Type B virus was reported sporadically...