Word: algerias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orsay will spend $101 million (up 25% since 1964) for the propagation of French culture and language abroad. France pays for the distribution of French books and magazines, provides 13,000 university scholarships for foreign study in France, and supports 32,000 French teachers in former colonies from Algeria to Viet Nam. The government occasionally uses other tactics. In 1963, the Foreign Ministry tried to get West German schools to teach French as a second language-with small success...
...Monopolies." The trouble was triggered by an invasion: since 1958, some 15,000 French ex-colonials, mostly from Algeria and many of Corsican origin, have swarmed onto the island. Their arrival has turned France's most underdeveloped department into its noisiest headache. The "repatriates" grabbed up much of the island's fertile eastern plain-a region that accounts for nearly half of Corsica's arable land, but was uninhabitable because of malaria until U.S. Army engineers cleared it with insecticides during World...
Guevara was at his most consistent during an incredible three-month tour that started last December with a U.N. appearance and continued on to Algeria, West Africa, Cairo and Peking. The U.N. speech attacking the U.S. and other "imperialist powers" was ultrabelligerent, going so far as to accuse U.S. marines of "sexual exhibitionism" on the perimeter of the Guantanamo naval base. A few days later, on CBS-TV's Face the Nation, Guevara loudly owned up to promoting Communist revolution in Latin America. "When people are fighting for their freedom, it would not be moral...
...Pigs invasion, a defiant David facing a hideous U.S. Goliath. A reporter asked if art was giving way to politics. "No," said the instructor. "We give the children complete freedom in what they do. I just give them a theme. Last week we talked about Algeria and the Congo. Today, I'll tell them about South Viet...
There were other setbacks. The rebels' Chinese Communist allies were kicked out of Burundi on the Congo's eastern frontier. Algeria, which had once trained Simbas in the art of guerrilla warfare and had been one of their principal suppliers of arms, suddenly ordered all local rebels to stop plotting or get out, refused to allow Gbenye to enter the country even for a brief visit...