Word: algerias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, after endless disputation and hand wringing, an Afro-Asian committee voted to postpone the conference until Nov. 5. Infuriated, the Peking delegation charged that the summit had been "sabotaged" by "imperialists." The new site? Still Algeria...
...their Afro-Asian visitors were confused about Algeria's new government, the Algerians were left even deeper in the dark. The government-controlled press, radio and TV pointedly avoided any explanation of its aims. The regime's newly appointed spokesman, a suave former tourism minister named Si Slimane, even refused to identify the members of the ruling Revolutionary Council or say how many there were. Asked last week whether Houari Boumedienne was in fact the new Chief of State, Slimane snapped back: "That is a question which should not be asked...
...week's end, Algeria cut off all radio and phone communication with the outside world, presumably to prevent press coverage of civilian unrest. The new government had already protested that outsiders were misinterpreting the revolution. One junta-controlled Algiers newspaper complained that the foreign press of "the left, right and center" had ganged up to make Boumedienne's regime look like "a surrealist painting," That, from a government source, was a pretty good description...
...Boumedienne's Defense Ministry had been one of the few well-run departments of the Algerian government and thought that might augur well for the future. The only fact that had become really clear was that Houari Boumedienne, so long known as "Numéro un bis" in Algeria, had at last become...
...bribed Congolese soldiers with Polaroid snapshots-a practice that enabled him to be in the right place to take the last picture of Patrice Lumumba as he was bundled from a plane to the truck that would carry him to his execution. From the Congo, Faas went to Algeria, where he snapped a number of O.A.S. murders daily and risked inviting his own. When a picture he took of one O.A.S. murder made the papers, a man stopped him in the street, invited him into a cafe for an absinthe, then pulled a pistol on him. "I was not going...