Word: algerians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Honor." It all began last fall when Bigeard's men captured an Algerian terrorist named Zerrouk, and persuaded him to change sides. Still outwardly a rebel, Zerrouk slipped back into the casbah as Bigeard's chief informer. Thanks to him, one terrorist leader after another fell into French hands, until Zerrouk found himself Terrorist No. 2, outranked only by the wily and elusive Yacef Saadi. Communicating only through a network of F.L.N. intermediaries and "letterboxes," Zerrouk (in messages dictated by Bigeard) described his own feats so glowingly that Saadi ordered him to be more cautious...
When newsmen tracked down the Algerians in Switzerland and Tunisia, they found them hobnobbing with F.L.N. agents, were handed an F.L.N. communiqué stating that the footballeurs refused any longer to help French sport "at the moment when France makes merciless war on their country. They have placed the independence of Algeria above all, giving Algerian youth proof of their courage and disinterestedness." A "Free Algerian" team would now be formed to barnstorm through the Middle East, said F.L.N...
...millions of French soccer fans it was the saddest blow of the Algerian rebellion. Favorite teams were badly crippled, and club owners put a trade value of $250,000 on the missing players. The players had not been treated meanly as Algerians; they were good friends of the other players, and were regarded as sports celebrities; most had French wives or girl friends...
...conference itself, Nkrumah opened the proceedings with an impassioned "Hands off Africa!" speech. But as the conference progressed, Nkrumah seemed to be less in control of it. The real stars turned out to be the Algerians, who had wheedled their way into the conference by attaching themselves to the U.A.R. delegation. Chief performer: M'hammed Yazid, the Algerian F.L.N. observer...
...week's end, the conference passed a resolution giving to Algerian rebels just about everything they asked. Equally important: Ghana, Liberia and Ethiopia, which had hitherto expressed only vague solidarity, seemed ready to offer material help, probably in the form of food. All in all, Yazid, who officially should not have been at Nkrumah's conference at all, came close to stealing the African Personality show...