Word: algerianness
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...ever a man embodied Louis XIV's legendary boast, "L 'état, c 'est moi," it was the late Algerian leader Houari Boumedienne. When he died last December, Boumedienne was not only Algeria's President but also its Minister of Defense, president of the Council of the Revolution and chief of the National Liberation Front (F.L.N.), the country's only political party. Finding a President to succeed such a pervasive figure presented a delicate problem for the eight-man council, many of whose members aspired to the post. In the end, the council settled...
...Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, secrecy was a lifelong obsession. Born Mohammed Ben Brahim Boukharouba, he borrowed a nom de guerre from an Algerian village during the revolution against France and kept it ever since. If his movements were mysterious, so was the way in Boumedienne which he ran his country for 13 years. Last week the mystery continued as Boumedienne, 53, with a blood clot on the brain, lay near death in an Algiers hospital...
While a team of 40 doctors from eight nations, including the U.S. and the Soviet Union, sought to remove the clot, one prognosis already seemed clear. The tall, austere Algerian leader will rule no longer. An era in which Boumedienne thrust stability on a fledging country and brought it eminence is ending. No successor has been groomed, and Boumedienne's demise could lead to a power struggle. Some observers believe that the two factions in the nine-man Council of the Revolution, one led by dapper Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 41, the other by Colonel Mohammed Salah Yahiaoui...
...Sudanese security men had to break up a wrestling match between Algerian and Moroccan delegates over a map of Africa that classified the Western Sahara as a nonindependent country. The Algerians, who support Polisario guerrillas fighting for the area's independence, were penciling in "independent" when the Moroccans chanced along and tried to ink in boundary lines indicating that Western Sahara had been partitioned between Morocco and Mauritania. A brief, fierce struggle ensued...
...guerrilla war it is fighting, alongside Morocco, in the former Spanish Sahara. The two countries moved into the phosphate-rich colony in 1975, when Spain agreed to withdraw its troops. Despite military help from Morocco and France, Mauritania has been battered by the 5,000 members of the Marxistoriented, Algerian-backed, Polisario guerrilla movement, which demands independence for the region...