Word: algerias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months, France has been determinedly negotiating to get its hands on a rich and vital resource: the oil reserves in its former colony, Algeria. Locked in that country's Sahara Desert is 1% of the world's proven reserves-more than 3.6 billion barrels-and 79 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, about 10% of the world's known supply. Colonel Houari Boumedienne, Algeria's new strongman, has been as anxious to get French development help as Ahmed ben Bella before him, and last week in Paris the two governments buried their bitter memories...
Grilled Ambassador. Boumedienne's Algeria-for-Algerians theme could hardly have cheered a score of "liberation" movements that had found funds and asylum in Algeria while battling colonialism in "oppressed" lands from the Congo to the Canary Islands. To make sure that its message would not be lost on Moscow, the government gave the Soviet ambassador "friendly warning" that it would no longer provide a forum for Communist propaganda. The Algiers correspondent for France's Communist daily L'Humanite, which bitterly denounced the coup, was booted out of the country for "exaggerated" reporting. Police also closed...
...When Algeria's shadowy new regime finally found its voice last week, foreigners and Algerians alike could hardly believe their ears. Colonel Houari Boumedienne, the gaunt, fiery-eyed army commander who ousted Ahmed ben Bella last month, left no doubt of his aims or of his determination to achieve them. "Algeria," he proclaimed, "just wants to be Algeria...
...first speech since the coup, Boumedienne explained to graduating students at a gendarmerie school that the nation would no longer dabble in international revolution and intrigue. Nor, he warned, would his government tolerate the "adventurers who intruded themselves into our country" during Ben Bella's three-year rule. "Algeria," said the austere colonel, "has no need to take lessons in socialism from outside...
...Algiers, was moved elsewhere-to Boumedienne's apparent relief. After a week without rioting on Algerian streets, initially hostile Arab governments appeared ready to accept the new Revolutionary Council. The most favorable foreign reaction came from French officials who, after months of negotiating a formula for dividing Algeria's oil revenues, found the new government surprisingly cooperative...