Word: algerias
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Until recently, Algeria's remote Sahara has been the test site for France's fledgling atomic program. With the agreement under which France uses the site about to run out and Africans, in general, resentful of the French tests, Charles de Gaulle had to find another place to blast. The one he chose is about as far from population centers as possible. It is Mururoa atoll, 750 miles southeast of Tahiti in the South Pacific...
...perhaps De Gaulle's grandest gesture-and quite likely his most valuable. Since 1945, when he was declared odd man out at Yalta by Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, De Gaulle has put France back on the map as a major world power. He ended the debilitating war in Algeria and added a new dimension to Western handling of the "Third World"; he blew life into the Common Market, even if he chilled the aspirations of those who saw it as a way to political unity on the Continent. In one fell swoop, he disposed of France's colonies...
Early this year, Russia offered Iran a $750 million natural-gas pipeline, Turkey a $200 million, seven-factory industrial complex, and sent Algeria a squadron of MIG-21s and two tank battalions. Iraq was promised an atomic reactor, given three squadrons of MIG-21s. Syria got a Soviet pledge of $150 million for a start on a Euphrates River dam that could prove even larger than Aswan, plus Soviet aid in rebuilding its railways and prospecting for Syrian oil. Nasser himself received four MIG squadrons, six submarines and a school of destroyers...
...give a damn any more. All we want is work, and there isn't any here." Nonetheless, the Boumedienne government was worried, well aware that Aït Ahmed will probably surface in Paris, join forces there with Mohammed Boudiaf and Mohammed Khider, two other exiled members of Algeria's "Historic Nine" leaders of the liberation battle, and from abroad remind Algerians how little Boumedienne has done to better their dreary lot since he seized power eleven months ago. Additional guards were slapped on the prison headquarters 25 miles southwest of Algiers, where Ben Bella sits in jail...
Simply getting a country in business at all can be a formidable task. Mauritania, for example, is practically a movable country, whose Moorish nomads wander after water in passportless circles through neighboring Mali and Algeria. Since every country must have a capital, Mauritania had to build one from scratch: Nouakchott (pop. 8,000), a clump of pastel cubes on a bleak stretch of sand dunes near the coast. In Laos, there are so few trained government elite-about 100 in all-that Cabinet making is essentially a game of musical chairs. Ethnic vivisection abounds nearly everywhere. The Somali peoples...