Word: algerian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BATTLE OF ALGIERS. A cinéma-vérité-style recounting of the Algerian guerrilla war against the French during the '50s, in which Italian Director Gillo Pontecorvo has used not one frame of actual documentary film footage, yet manages to make the movie explosively real...
...Egyptian Minister of Economy Hassan Abbas Zaki, would cost the West $770 million worth of oil but would deprive the Arab producers of $870 million of income. Only Algeria, the fifth-ranking producer, kept its embargo. And even that involved more symbolism than substance, since the overwhelming percentage of Algerian output goes, as it has all along, to France...
...were escorted safely across the border into Rwanda. Then he issued an ultimatum giving Mobutu ten days in which to negotiate for peace. Among Schramme's terms: that Mobutu return democratic government to the Congo, annul the treason conviction of ex-President Tshombe (who is now in an Algerian jail awaiting extradition) and make Tshombe a member of the Cabinet...
...WONDERS, by Francoise Mallet-Joris. Hero Nicholas Leclusier decides that life is really not worth living, which is somewhat difficult to understand, since Author Mallet-Joris has surrounded him with a collection of vivid people and a fascinating picture of France at the end of the bitter, bloody Algerian...
Forgotten in Brazilian exile for the past four years, after accusing Charles de Gaulle of "treason" in granting Algerian independence, France's Georges Bidault, 67-twice a postwar Premier, nine times Foreign Minister-took several large steps closer to home, established residence in Belgium and promised a return to France soon. In the meantime, he vowed to say and do nothing to blight Belgian-French relations. When reporters asked if he would approach De Gaulle for an amnesty, Georges replied grandly: "I, Bidault, approach that wretch?" Besides, he said, "to have amnesty one must first have been pronounced guilty...