Word: algerianness
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...rebellious prisoners, for instance, was Adnan Ahmed Nuri, a Palestinian terrorist who was serving five years for hijacking and burning a British Airways VC-10 last March. Actually, the instigators were two Dutch criminals who were doing time for robbery. The fourth prisoner, an Algerian also convicted of robbery, appeared to be simply tagging along. With the Palestinian as front man, the quartet demanded, as the price for their hostages, a plane that would carry them to any Arab country and the release of another Palestinian in the prison hospital...
...neared the end of his seven-day shuttle through the region last week, Kissinger tried to lighten the situation with some levity during a three-hour call on Algerian President Houari Boumedienne. "You should invite me to the summit," joked the Secretary of State. "I've met more Arab heads of state than some Arab foreign ministers." Kissinger obviously will not be welcome at Rabat, but he is confident that his gradualist strategy will be put forward by President Anwar Sadat of Egypt...
...chiefly, renewal of operations from Jordan, stopped four years ago when Hussein's army expelled the fedayeen in bloody fighting]; and if King Hussein accepts them, we refuse to be pinned to complexes about the massacre of 1970. The policy of the revolution is pragmatic. After all, the Algerians are now dealing with the French, although 1.5 million Algerian martyrs lost their lives [in the war against France...
Ford's hard-edged speech proved to be an appropriate thematic counterpoint to the opening address of General Assembly President Bouteflika. At 37, the Algerian Foreign Minister not only is the youngest person ever to occupy the seat but also appears to be among the least neutral in his sympathies. Bouteflika's opening address scored imperialism in Southeast Asia, an obvious reference to the U.S. presence there. He attacked "hidden hands" on Cyprus. He congratulated Portugal, regularly scored in the past by U.N. members as a colonial oppressor, for "reconciliation with the cause of liberty" in granting independence...
...French colony of Algeria; it is a remarkable movie because in the subtlest and most subdued way it tells the truth about a contemporary political situation. In addition to its value as an historical document, the movie poses in clear and human terms the moral problem of terrorism. The Algerian battle cry that is sounded throughout is an amazing noise, one that will haunt you for a long time to come if you see this film, as well you should...