Word: algerianness
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...blaze of morning sunlight the buildings are white, elegant and French in downtown Algiers. Although the streets are named after Algerian martyrs, their design is French colonial. White stucco, palm trees and street cafes appear in regular sequence and converge at a large square or park. Their sharp angularity seems out of place in this hilly city decorated with Islamic arabesques...
...respectable young Muslim in contemporary Algerian society observes a strict set of family obligations. If his family is poor, he must provide for it. He is discouraged from marrying or leaving home unless his family can survive economically without him. When he does marry, the marriage is usually unofficially arranged by his parents. There is little that he can do about this situation since it is practically impossible to meet women other than through a family connection. A medical student who lived in the conservative provincial capital of Constantine summed it all up one day. Shaking his head sadly...
...Moroccan army launched a search-and-destroy campaign against the Polisarios. Apparently in response, Algerian units crossed into the Sahara. At Amgala, a skirmish between Moroccans and the guerrillas grew into a major battle with tanks and heavy artillery. Morocco claimed to have captured 101 Algerian prisoners. Algeria admitted only that its forces had "withdrawn in good order . . . after they had admirably carried out their mission...
Stung Again. The possibility of all-out war stirred fears throughout the Arab world. Egypt's Anwar Sadat, Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba and Iraq's Ahmed Hassan Bakr telephoned Hassan and Algerian President Houari Boumedienne to urge a ceasefire. Syria's Hafez Assad dispatched Vice Premier Mohammed Haidar and Chief of Staff General Hikmat Chehabi to Algiers and Rabat to try to defuse what Damascus radio called "the explosive situation...
...week's end Moroccan communiqués claimed the area had been "cleansed of all rebel elements." Algerian pride, still wounded by a Moroccan whipping in the 1963 border war, had been stung again. Should Boumedienne try to even the score, Algeria's army would be far from supply bases and pitted against a Moroccan force roughly its equal in size and skill. But Algeria's 3-to-1 advantage in air power could prove decisive in the Sahara's frigid, windswept wadies and salt flats, whose sparse vegetation creates ideal strafing ground...