Word: algerias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Algeria last week Hocine Ait Ahmed and an officer named Si Moussa sat in prison cells awaiting execution. Their four-day trial had taken place before a three-man "revolutionary criminal court." Ait Ahmed, 39, a French-trained lawyer, was captured last October after leading an underground movement aimed at toppling the government of President Ahmed ben Bella, his onetime comrade in arms in the F.L.N. struggle against the French. The state demanded the death sentence, and the 15 defense lawyers-Algerian, Moroccan, French and Swiss-finally quit the courtroom in protest at the methods of the tribunal, especially...
Elsewhere in Islam, some pillars of the faith are crumbling. In Algeria and Tunisia, few town dwellers bother to stop work or play for the five-time ritual of daily prayer. In the cities of Westernized Syria and Lebanon, a majority of Moslems drink, and the percentage of those who fast through Ramadan is on the decline. In much of Africa, as British Orientalist J. Spencer Trimingham points out, "Islam and the pagan underlayer have blended"-leading to a mixture of Allah-worship and animism that would scandalize the learned sheiks of Cairo...
Floodlit Formal. As Chen Yi left Pakistan, China's Premier Chou En-lai arrived. He had flown to Rumania for the funeral of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, stopped at Tirana, capital of Albania, Peking's most distant and tiniest ally, and jetted on to Algeria and Egypt where he reportedly urged Ahmed ben Bella and Gamal Abdel Nasser not to invite Russia to the second Bandung-style conference of Afro-Asian nations scheduled for June in Algiers. Chou's point: despite its possession of Siberia, Russia is essentially a European country...
...nearly enough to bring scholarship to so vast and desperate a student body. As a result, students and labor leaders, intellectuals and urban workers have grown increasingly impatient with Hassan's reluctant moderation and economies-and increasingly sympathetic with the instant socialism of such Arab leaders as Algeria's Ahmed ben Bella...
...form or another, the three gases have been in use for nearly 40 years. The British used CS in Cyprus and British Guiana, a fact that must have surprised Foreign Minister Stewart no end, and the French used it in Algeria. Guards on both sides of the Berlin Wall have lobbed gas grenades at one another from time to time. The British have sold CS gas to a score of nations from Australia to Venezuela; the U.S. has sold it to such nations as Bolivia and France. It was used by New York state troopers during last year...