Word: algerias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...takes five full acts for tragedies to come to their fateful end, and that those like me, who want to spare us the last act are doomed to fail (it took the French seven years to realize what they had to do in Indochina and seven years again in Algeria). But I am afraid that it is at any rate too late to hope that the last act will give a happy end to the play. Stanley Hoffmann Professer of Government
They don't. For nearly two years their troops have been skirmishing intermittently for a 500-mile strip of land which was once considered Moroccan, but was handed over to Algeria by the French when they controlled the area. In addition, militant Socialist Ben Bella regards Hassan as a feudal tyrant and has been training guerrillas and encouraging rebellion against...
...meeting took place in the Moroccan resort town of Saïdia, which lies just across the River Kiss from Algeria. Under such circumstances, it could hardly have failed. A mellow joint communiqué announced that the two old pals had discussed Algerian-Moroccan relations and had arrived at "identical views." To commemorate their new-found fraternity, in fact, they decided to build a bridge across the Kiss. Its name will be Encounter Bridge...
...remotely possible that, despite popular opposition, the U.S. Army could do what the French attempted in Algeria. Perhaps one could scorch and terrify the entire population into subservience. But the psychological and physical cost would be immense under the best circumstances, and the policy would risk eliciting open confrontation with the North. In such an event the odds are that Russia could not stand by and watch the United States fight a massive war in Vietnam without intervening. It is true that the Russians and Chinese might well "lose" the ensuing conflict. Nevertheless this entire chain of prospects seems totally...
...Ahmed and Si Moussa to life imprisonment. Both men will probably be sent deep into the Sahara where they can keep company with former Premier Ferhat Abbas, former Justice Minister Amar Bentoumi, and several former deputies, including Abderrahmane Fares, ex-President of the provisional executive government. In Algeria, the revolution does not devour its children; it merely buries them in the desert...