Word: algerianness
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Into the Saharan oasis town of Biskra rolled a cautious column of halftracks loaded with olive-uniformed Algerian troops. Spears of sunlight flashed from the lenses of binoculars as nervous officers searched the streets for signs of the enemy. But the town was empty of armed opposition, and all eyes lifted to the sere, sawback massif that reared beyond. Up there, among the blue defiles of the Aures Mountains, waited the latest defector from Premier Ahmed ben Bella's socialist paradise, and with him were 9,000 well-armed veterans ready for resistance, rebellion or death...
Married. Millicent Phoebe Hearst, 25, United Nations correspondent for Hearst Headline Service, granddaughter of the late William Randolph, and Raouf Boudjakdji, 31, Algerian delegate to the U.N.; in a civil ceremony in Manhattan...
...with French subtitles when the Arabs talk. Blue learned French as a student at the Paris Institute. He made Olive Trees for the French Government. It is propaganda, or was once, but it is so well done that it is chiefly propaganda for the human race. A young French Algerian broods beside his father's deathbed about his childhood, seen in flashback, and what is left of that fine early life in Algeria now. Something is left. He decides that he must go on living there...
Loyal Commander. But Ben Bella's hold on the government and the nation really depends on the support of the 50,000-man Algerian army and its ascetic commander, Colonel Houari Boumedienne, who is also Defense Minister and Vice President of Algeria. With a monthly salary of about $50, the average soldier is far better off than the average Algerian citizen, and in every crisis so far, Boumedienne has proved loyal to Ben Bella...
...government. Though Aubame had never been particularly popular, the arrest ballooned him to heroic proportions in the eyes of the aroused public. The riots exploded with new violence, and in the glare of burning shops and houses, Libreville's French population-largely composed of old Indo-China and Algerian colons-noticed that only the Americans were spared the angry mob's violence...