Word: algerias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people are unemployed and 2,000,000 more are only partially employed. It is a land of piercing poverty, bitter-cold winters and scorching hot summers-all of which have combined to drive 700,000 Algerians to Europe for work and relief. France has 600 Algerian graduate engineers, while Algeria itself has only...
...Need for Lessons." In the mountain villages of the Kabylia region, once-fierce tribesmen wait like famished eagles for postal checks from sons and nephews working in France. The once-flourishing port of Oran is almost idle, and at the nearby town of Arzew, heralded as one of Algeria's leading new industrial zones, building sites still lie empty because of the shortage of foreign capital. To add to the misery, farm land in western Algeria has been burned black by the worst drought in a decade, cutting the year's grain supply in half...
Boumediene insists that Algeria can solve its problems alone. "Algeria has no need for lessons from abroad," he says, "and her children have no need of foreign counselors to tell them how to construct the new society." Yet foreign counselors are everywhere. With its own talent draining away to Europe, Algeria counts on 11,000 French technicians to run the country's railroads, waterworks and powerhouses. Most of the hospitals and clinics are manned by doctors from the U.S., France and the Communist bloc. Some 1,500 Russians are advising the army...
...Algeria's leader clearly wants the help to keep coming. Though Boumediene still rails against "criminal American aggression in Viet Nam," he is privately imploring the U.S. for 500,000 tons of wheat. To improve relations with France, which has whittled Algerian aid by 50% because of continued friction between the two countries, Boumediene's government signed a new treaty with Paris last week that clears up at least one major area of dispute-the amount and terms of repayment of Algeria's pre-independence debt. Under the agreement, Algeria agreed to pay France $80 million...
Widespread Repercussions. At its semiannual meeting in Kuwait, the Boy cott Office of the 13-nation Arab League (Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, the United Arab Republic and Yemen) voted for a ban by all Arab countries on doing business with all three companies. The action against Coca-Cola came in retaliation for the granting of an Israeli bottling franchise to Manhattan Banker Abraham Feinberg, who is also president of the Israel Development Corp., which promotes Bonds for Israel. RCA angered the Arabs by allowing phonograph records to be pressed in Israel. The move...