Word: algerias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strategic Studies points out that there are more military men acting as political leaders than at any time in the 20th century." He cites Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan, Burma's Ne Win Thai land's Thanom Kittikachorn, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser Algeria s Houan Boumedienne, Saigon's Nguyen Cao Ky, France's Charles de Gaulle and such nonprofessional but militaristic figures as Cuba's Fidel Castro and Indonesia's Sukarno...
...Reminder. Sukarno also referred to the recent military coup in Algeria, and he may well have been worried by the obvious parallels. "The fall of Ben Bella," he cried, "should serve as a reminder to every leader that the moment a leader puts a distance between himself and the interests of his people he will certainly topple...
...dice. Nkrumah had spent even more summit money than had Algeria. His pretentious "Job 600," a complex of conference halls, office buildings, and a twelve-story, air-conditioned apartment house built for the Presidents and their delegations, was expected to cost at least $27 million−2% of Ghana's entire national income last year. The Redeemer had ordered his summit's postponement only because Job 600 had not been finished on time. The O.A.U. was already unhappy at the delay, he told Bouteflika, and any further tampering with the schedule could ruin the whole thing...
...Will Be Boys. This unique bit of entrepreneurism was conceived eleven years ago by Jean-Pierre Bruggeman, 44, and Jean Thomachot, 39, then French wine merchants in Algeria. They discovered that there was more money to be made in casks for shipping than in the wine. Extending the idea, they founded an investment company called Algeco to buy up railroad tank cars at prices ranging from $7,000 to $26,000, then leased the cars to oil companies and skimmed off 20% of the revenue as a management fee. Today Algeco owns more than 8,000 tank cars that haul...
...this novel, Alan Sillitoe (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) retells the tired old tale of a working-class yob who decides to chuck it all and live a little. He says ta-ta to his spouse and house, toddles off with a well-educated wench, ends up in Algeria running guns to the rebels and imagining he is out of the ruck and into the luck. Sillitoe was always a careless writer, and now that he is crassly cashing in, he is grossly sprawling out. He is inaccurate: "They were attracted like two magnets in a field of iron filings...