Word: algerianness
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...Bread, Houses, Work." While the Algerian commanders were behaving more and more like old-style Chinese warlords, the Algerian people were wearying of conflict. Mobs surged through the city in defiance of the curfew, disgustedly shouting: "Seven years of war is enough." Said one of their leaders: "We don't want fighting among brothers. We don't want a Congo here." Over and over, the crowds roared: "Toute la clique au poteau [To hell with everybody]." Most ominous note for the squabbling leaders was a silent march by 16,000 members of the powerful Union of Algerian Workers...
TIME Correspondent Edward Behr. 36, served in the British army in India, worked as a reporter for Reuters in London and Paris, and as a member of our Paris staff has traveled through most of Europe. For four years he covered the Algerian war, and wrote a book about it last year...
...thick were the crowds that surged to greet Ben Bella's plane when it touched down at Maison Blanche Airport that an Algerian army officer in a paratroop uniform fired a tommy gun in the air to clear a path for him. With sirens screaming, 30 motorcycle cops led the motorcade on a wild ride into downtown Algiers. Switching lanes with abandon and totally disregarding one-way street signs, the cars alternately sped along at 60 m.p.h. or were caught in bumper-to-bumper jams as the screaming populace boiled forward to see its new leader. Finally the caravan...
...educated men in the F.L.N., Boumedienne attended the two finest Moslem universities, al-Azhar in Cairo and Zi-touna in Tunis, is the editor of a military review. El Djiech (The Army). At present, Boumedienne backs Ben Bella, but he wants to make the army the backbone of the Algerian nation. Boumedienne opposes close economic ties with France as a form of-"neo-colonialism," is against the presence of Europeans in an independent Algeria. Some anti-Ben Bella wilaya commanders, however, disagree with Boumedienne on these matters, vow that they will refuse to obey his orders...
...Bella is a hero almost by accident. He has no clear ideology, but a talent for ringing phrases, no strong political organization, but considerable political flair. He often seems unsure of himself, but can also be arrogant and tough. Born of simple country parents in the west Algerian town of Marnia, he served as a master sergeant in the French army in World War II, became a terrorist for the Algerian nationalists, was one of the nine founders of the F.L.N. Captured by the French in 1956, he was imprisoned for the next 5½ years. That was a rare...