Word: algerians
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...China supplied Algeria's rebels with arms and money in their fight against the French, and was the first Communist nation to recognize Algerian independence. So the least that Peking's Premier Chou En-lai expected in Algiers last week was a well-organized demonstration of brotherly love. Instead, he got a chaotic reception that at times resembled a brotherly brushoff...
...tone was obvious as soon as Chou stepped off his chartered KLM Electra amidst a pelting hailstorm. Algerian Premier Ahmed Ben Bella usually gives important visitors an affectionate buss on both cheeks. Not this time. All Chou got was a simple handshake and a carefully prepared speech that extolled, of all things, the Russian propaganda line of peaceful coexistence. Just before the motorcade drove into town, a little truck raced madly ahead, pausing momentarily along the route while men frantically plastered posters of Chou on walls and billboards. Adding to the general atmosphere of carelessness were a few streamers covered...
...make way for the new in the "martyred city" of Boulogne. Most troubled of the four is the widow's stepson, who cannot forget (nor can any conscientious Frenchman, Resnais seems to suggest) the part he took in the torture and ultimate death of a young Algerian girl named Muriel. The boy's awful recollections are hidden away in recordings and photographs, part of his weird search for a sort of son et lumière catharsis...
Equally Wary. When the negotiations finally started, Mali's President Modibo Keita and Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, host and mediator, tried to keep the Algerian and Moroccan delegations apart. The emissaries even ate in separate dining rooms, with Keita and Selassie shuttling back and forth. Finally, after one face-to-face meeting between Morocco's King Hassan II and Ben Bella, a compromise cease-fire agreement was reached-but it was full of loopholes and did not last long...
...agreement called for a neutral, demilitarized zone along the disputed border, without specifying the lines to which Moroccan and Algerian troops should withdraw. The foreign ministers of the 32-nation Organization of African Unity, set up last spring at Addis Ababa, were to arbitrate the entire border issue, but their recommendations would not be binding. The Algerians later claimed that the agreement called for the Moroccans to evacuate the two small desert oases where the fighting began; the Moroccans hotly denied...