Word: algerianness
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FRANCE. When Charles de Gaulle survived one of the most spectacularly bungled of the 30 assassination attempts made against him during the Algerian war, he swept aside the question of his security with his customary biting imperiousness: "There is no point in taking special precautions when those who want to kill me are as incompetent as those who are supposed to protect...
Deft Negotiator. Can this new spirit last? One encouraging factor is the change in the General Assembly's management. Algerian Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika used his position as president of the 29th General Assembly aggressively to support the tactics of the Third World bloc. He wrenched procedural issues in a way that prevented South Africa from taking its seat and limited Israel's participation in the Palestinian debate. Bouteflika's blatant disregard for the tradition of presidential impartiality was one cause of former U.S. Ambassador John Scali's warning last year that a "tyranny...
...They telephoned their demands to a Spanish news agency. Describing the Sinai accord as "treason against the Egyptian people," they said they would kill their hostages if Sadat did not repudiate the Sinai agreement and abandon implementation talks on the accord that are underway in Geneva. The Iraqi and Algerian ambassadors, later joined by those from Jordan and Kuwait, rushed to help their captive colleague. They communicated with the terrorists by passing notes under a door...
...Arafat in ending the incident peacefully. Arafat sent a message to the terrorists pointing out that an operation such as theirs did not serve the Palestinian cause. Meanwhile, Sadat had agreed to have them flown to Algiers if they did not harm their captives. The kidnapers agreed. When an Algerian Ilyushin-18 arrived in Algiers at 3:30 a.m., the three Egyptians, plus the Iraqi and Algerian ambassadors, who had gone along as volunteer hostages to the terrorists, were released unharmed...
...Leary was a real problem. I didn't want the man to come, you know, cause he was such a problem, but he showed up at my pad anyway. It was kind of funny--when Leary announced that he was going to Algeria, the Algerian government got very excited. They didn't know anything abouth him except that he was a big Harvard professor coming to live in their country. So they were really proud, and played it up big on the television news. They were going to have a big reception committee meet him at the plane...