Word: algerias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beyond mere self-serving. "Scorn and skepticism in the Communist camp notwithstanding," noted the Egyptian Gazette, "no head of state would send special envoys to a dozen world capitals, as President Johnson has done, if he had no intention of suiting his actions to his words." Socialist Algeria, hand-tooled, like Hanoi, in bloody rebellion against French masters, received Soapy Williams with unusual cordiality...
Betrayal. The Arab swing from the left is dictated by the hard facts of economic life: the need for Western aid, investment and know-how, the failure of extreme socialism to salvage the hemorrhaging economies of Egypt and Iraq. Algeria, too, under Colonel Houari Boumedienne, has retreated from deposed Strongman Ben Bella's far-left bent. And when Ben Bella went, Nasser lost his only real revolutionary pal in the Arab world...
...timidity, to include the melodrama, so Yes is for A Very Young Man has nothing but a situation: a family of divided loyalties in Occupied France and their American friend live through a tense war and manage to more or less stick together. Change the setting to Baltimore or Algeria, it would probably be the same...
After covering World War II in the South Pacific, Dickey showed up just about everywhere men were shooting at each other: Korea, Hungary, Kashmir, Cuba, Algeria, the Dominican Republic. She traced her interest in battle to her quiet childhood in Milwaukee, where, as she recalled in her autobiography, What's a Woman Doing Here?, she was taught "that violence in any form is unthinkable. It was so unthinkable that it became as attractive a mystery to me as sex seemed to be to other teen-agers...
...wars, which she covered for publications ranging from the Reader's Digest to LIFE to the National Geographic, Dickey never demanded any special treatment. Men did their best to keep her out of danger, but she always managed to find it. While covering the rebels in Algeria, she learned to subsist on a diet of half a dozen dates a day, to sleep on a rock, to urinate only once a day to prevent dehydration. She could do 50 pushups. "In fatigues and helmet," said an admiring Marine Corps commander in Viet Nam, "you couldn't tell...