Word: algerian
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...Broglie appeared the very model of titled rectitude. Descended from one of the country's most illustrious families, De Broglie became a Resistance hero during World War II, served under Charles de Gaulle in various ministerial posts and was a key member of the French team that negotiated Algerian independence in 1962. He was a former secretary-general of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's Independent Republican Party and had held a seat in the National Assembly since...
...Morocco and Mauritania have lost about 1,000 men since last February. Other Arab governments-notably Saudi Arabia-have tried to work out a diplomatic settlement, so far without success. Supplied with East Bloc arms by Libya and Algeria, Polisario is able to struggle on from sanctuaries near the Algerian border town of Tindouf, where about 40,000 Saharoui refugees live in 22 camps. By helping the guerrillas, President Houari Boumedienne is able to keep a third of Archenemy King Hassan's Moroccan armed forces tied up in a frustrating and expensive...
...multi-million dollar project--largest in Swiss history--is being financed by a Swiss conglomeration but built by foreign migrant workers. Although pay scales are adequate, no Swiss laborers could be found for the rigorous work, hence Turkish, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Algerian workers were brought in for the mammoth construction job. All supplies must be flown in by chopper...
...institutionalized torture and brutality on a scale hitherto unknown. The 1948 United Nations' Declaration of Human Rights condemning torture was one notable reaction of the world community to the excesses of the Third Reich. But torture did not stop. The French used it systematically during the eight-year Algerian War. The British relied on torture to gain information about I.R.A. terrorists in Northern Ireland, while the Saigon regime brutally mistreated suspect Communists throughout most of the Viet...
Outrageous Designs. Saint Laurent, whose firm invested about $500,000 in last week's show, was optimistic that his collection would catch on. Since the Algerian-born French designer took over the couture house of his mentor Dior in 1957 at the age of 21, he has produced a series of highly successful-and often outrageous-designs, such as the Trapeze (1958) and the hobble skirt (1959). When the couturier opened his own house in 1962, he went on to launch tuxedos for women, hip boots, visor caps and, most recently, last spring's Ballets Russes collection...