Word: algerians
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...triumphal arc of laurel branches spanned the main street of the west Algerian city of Tiaret. In the reviewing stand, dissident Vice Premier Ahmed ben Bella listened to the cheers of thousands of Moslem women chanting Yu! Yu! Yu!, then settled back to listen to a round of speeches from his top aides, attempting to justify his bid to overthrow the government of Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda. Just as one speaker assured the crowd that "Algeria is not the Congo," a messenger passed word to the assembled dignitaries that perhaps it really was. Some 320 miles to the east, at Constantine...
...headquarters in the Algerian city of Sidi-bel-Abbès, the French Foreign Legion last week awaited the sound of Taps. On the surface nothing was changed...
...inland city of Orléansville, interrupting their talks only to take soundings in Algiers and Tlemcen. They finally proposed a six-man politburo, with three members from each, side, which would be empowered to prepare a slate of candidates for a Congress to be elected by the Algerian people...
...pronounced left-winger, who last week angrily turned down the Orleansville proposal while Ben Bella was still studying it. Belkacem Krim and Mohammed Boudiaf had been named for the politburo, but Boumedienne denounced them both as "usurpers" and accused them of having "collaborated" with France in the days before Algerian independence...
...government interference with his plans. To succeed him as boss of the Continent's biggest aircraft producer, the government last week chose Air Force General André Puget, 51, recently eased out as chief of the French General Staff for his foot dragging over De Gaulle's Algerian policy. It will not be smooth going at Sud Aviation either for Puget, a quiet, amiable St.-Cyr graduate. Though Sud Aviation made $8,300,000 last year, it has yet to recoup the original development costs of the Caravelle, and faces even greater outlays on the Mach 2 Super...