Word: algerian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appalled at the ability of 'Cliffe dwellers to take such fare seriously. Let Radcliffe girls return to their theses on Algerian Urbanization and Old French Literature and save their energy for civil rights demonstrations, Peace Corps recruitment, identity crises, and other activities more worthy of their breed...
...goat and camel herdsmen in the sere, sand-scoured mountains north of Timbuctoo. Last week in the Republic of Mali, some 5,000 Tuaregs decided the kissing had to stop. Holed up in the Adrar des Iforas, a parched, 40,000-sq.-mi. redoubt that straddles the Mali-Algerian border, they prepared to fight off half of Mali's army...
...China supplied Algeria's rebels with arms and money in their fight against the French, and was the first Communist nation to recognize Algerian independence. So the least that Peking's Premier Chou En-lai expected in Algiers last week was a well-organized demonstration of brotherly love. Instead, he got a chaotic reception that at times resembled a brotherly brushoff...
...tone was obvious as soon as Chou stepped off his chartered KLM Electra amidst a pelting hailstorm. Algerian Premier Ahmed Ben Bella usually gives important visitors an affectionate buss on both cheeks. Not this time. All Chou got was a simple handshake and a carefully prepared speech that extolled, of all things, the Russian propaganda line of peaceful coexistence. Just before the motorcade drove into town, a little truck raced madly ahead, pausing momentarily along the route while men frantically plastered posters of Chou on walls and billboards. Adding to the general atmosphere of carelessness were a few streamers covered...
...camp in world affairs. At a press conference in Algiers, Chou declared that Ben Bella was in favor of another "Bandung," though it was not entirely clear just how enthusiastic Ben Bella felt on the subject. But when Chou lashed out at "U.S. imperialism" at a closed meeting of Algerian leaders, Ben Bella led the applause. The Sino-Soviet feud was a more tricky problem in diplomacy. Determined to stay neutral, Ben Bella had just dispatched a high-level aid mission to Russia, Red China's archrival. Communist China's aid to Algeria consists of a $50 million...