Word: algerians
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...Bella told newsmen, "For me this was an historic event. What a great man, what a great mind!" Informed observers thought the talk dealt with 1) a better share in Saharan oil for Algeria, 2) an increase in French aid, now running at $200 million annually, and 3) Algerian membership in a proposed Mediterranean pact that would include France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain, Tunisia and Morocco...
...appalled at the ability of 'Cliffe dwellers to take such fare seriously. Let Radcliffe girls return to their theses on Algerian Urbanization and Old French Literature and save their energy for civil rights demonstrations, Peace Corps recruitment, identity crises, and other activities more worthy of their breed...
...give it a couple of hard twists. Regardless of what economic aid he can offer, the General is a sympathetic figure to Latin Americans of almost every political hue. His military uniform, and the order and prosperity he has brought to France appeal to the rightists. The grant of Algerian independence and his neutralist foreign policy appeal heavily to the left. Most of all, he has led a small country in dignified and reasonable resistance to the dogmatism of the United States...
...goat and camel herdsmen in the sere, sand-scoured mountains north of Timbuctoo. Last week in the Republic of Mali, some 5,000 Tuaregs decided the kissing had to stop. Holed up in the Adrar des Iforas, a parched, 40,000-sq.-mi. redoubt that straddles the Mali-Algerian border, they prepared to fight off half of Mali's army...
...camp in world affairs. At a press conference in Algiers, Chou declared that Ben Bella was in favor of another "Bandung," though it was not entirely clear just how enthusiastic Ben Bella felt on the subject. But when Chou lashed out at "U.S. imperialism" at a closed meeting of Algerian leaders, Ben Bella led the applause. The Sino-Soviet feud was a more tricky problem in diplomacy. Determined to stay neutral, Ben Bella had just dispatched a high-level aid mission to Russia, Red China's archrival. Communist China's aid to Algeria consists of a $50 million...