Word: algerians
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...while thousands went bitterly into exile out of loyalty to the Bourbon kings. Since then, the "eldest daughter" of Catholicism has been torn periodically by quarrels over such issues as the Dreyfus Affair and separation of church and state in the 19th century, the worker-priest movement and the Algerian war in the 20th...
...Algerian government has accused the Swiss bankers of harboring $12 million that a rebel sequestered from Premier ben Bella's treasury. Last week, in a far more serious affair, Switzerland was shaken by one of the worst scandals in the annals of Swiss banking. 'The government suspended from office the man most directly re sponsible for policing the country's banking integrity: Max Hommel, presi dent of the Swiss Banking Commission...
...minutes last week Morocco's King Hassan II and Algerian Premier Ahmed ben Bella sat on the balcony of a seafront villa and pretended they liked each other...
...meeting took place in the Moroccan resort town of Saïdia, which lies just across the River Kiss from Algeria. Under such circumstances, it could hardly have failed. A mellow joint communiqué announced that the two old pals had discussed Algerian-Moroccan relations and had arrived at "identical views." To commemorate their new-found fraternity, in fact, they decided to build a bridge across the Kiss. Its name will be Encounter Bridge...
...practically nothing to publicize the cancer reports. Turkey's newspapers patriotically contend that smoking of artificially flavored foreign cigarettes may be harmful but that there is no danger in enjoying the state monopoly's smokes, made from "pure" Turkish tobacco. To strengthen its own depleted treasury, the Algerian government is stepping up production in cigarette factories. South Korea protects its tobacco monopoly by forbidding the sale of foreign smokes; offenders are sometimes arrested right on the streets...