Word: algerian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing quite so symbolized the total violence of the Algerian revolution as the barricades of cobblestones and sandbags from which its bloodiest battles were fought against France. Last week the barricades were back again. Soldiers and police armed with submachine guns blocked all highways. Foreign diplomats and newsmen were ordered to keep off the roads and stay close to Algiers. Colonel Tahar Zbiri, the army chief of staff, was in hiding after attempting a coup, and with him had gone many of Algeria's top officers. Troops loyal to President Houari Boumediene combed the snow-covered mountain range where...
...over. Zbiri, still at large, commands the loyalties of a good many of Algeria's military men. Also behind him are the country's Berber minority, the revolutionary zealots who despise Boumediene's practical technocrats and, in all probability, the 200,000 members of the Algerian General Workers Union, whose power Boumediene has systematically underminded...
...Expatriates often hear such remarks as: "We think the general is being too tough on you, and we don't all share his feelings." Such remarks are usually passed late at night in back alleys, and it is difficult to tell whether or not the speaker is an Algerian...
...destroyers, plus a dozen submarines, patrol the Mediterranean. The Russians supply their ships at sea, sometimes drop into Alexandria, Port Said and the Syrian port of Latakia for repairs under the pretext of good-will visits. They also visit the French-built base at Mers-el-Kebir on the Algerian coast, which they would like to use as a permanent base when the last remnants of the French navy pull out next year. Sometimes the Soviet ships come so close to U.S. vessels that the Americans must take evasive action...
Politically also, Mobutu seems to have consolidated his position. Many of his political enemies are either in prison or in exile, including ex-Premier Moise Tshombe, who was kidnaped last June and remains in an Algerian jail. (Algeria has so far refused Mobutu's request for Tshombe's extradition to the Congo, where he is under a death sentence.) The flight of the 123 white and 950 black Katangese mercenaries, under pressure from Mobutu's army, has for now restored the prestige of his army officers, who might otherwise have been tempted to depose...