Word: ait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With Good Luck . . ." Ettinger's book and his TV appearances have spurred the growth of such groups as the Life Extension Society, with a dozen chapters. The society publishes a newsletter called Freeze-W'ait-Reanimate...
...actual soldiering is tougher than ever. During his eight weeks of Basic Combat Training, a recruit nowadays is automatically "recycled," or forced to repeat any week that he fails. After an exhaustive basic proficiency test, he enters a second eight-week period called Advanced Individual Training. During AIT, the recruit learns further skills based on his aptitude and interests, finally qualifies in one of 950 Military Occupation Specialties ranging from "creepy-peepy" (battlefield radar) to computers (by which warehouse sergeants now tot up rations). In all, today's soldier gets four months' training v. eight to twelve weeks...
...Boumedienne who routed the guerrillas who seized Algiers to protest Ben Bella's overthrow of Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda. It was Boumedienne who crushed Colonel Mohammed Chaabani's desert insurrection and executed its leader. It was Boumedienne who managed the capture of Berber Rebel Leader Hocine Ait Ahmed. When the Berbers of Kabylia revolted in 1963, Boumedienne's troops took heavy losses in quelling the uprising...
...Ait Ahmed, well aware that nothing could save him except Ben Bella's whim, announced that he would carry on his defense alone. When he was finished, the three-man tribunal got on the phone to Ben Bella and then announced the death penalty. For 48 hours after the trial, Ben Bella and his top leadership debated the case. There was strong sentiment against clemency, but everyone knew that execution would arouse greater resentment than ever among the anti-Ben Bella Berbers of Kabylia, where Alt Ahmed was a local hero...
...Monday evening, the regular news broadcast was 35 minutes late, and the time was filled with soft music. Then came the announcement: Ben Bella had personally commuted the death sentences of Ait Ahmed and Si Moussa to life imprisonment. Both men will probably be sent deep into the Sahara where they can keep company with former Premier Ferhat Abbas, former Justice Minister Amar Bentoumi, and several former deputies, including Abderrahmane Fares, ex-President of the provisional executive government. In Algeria, the revolution does not devour its children; it merely buries them in the desert...