Word: algerias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cairo, some 200 African and Egyptian students descended on the U.S. embassy and burned down the adjacent, $250,000 John F. Kennedy Memorial Library. Ahmed ben Bella, shaky ruler of a bankrupt Algeria, many of whose people survive only because of U.S. food gifts, pledged "arms and volunteers" to the Congo rebels. So did Red China...
When Mohammed Khider, the treasurer of Algeria's ruling National Liberation Front party, quarreled with Strongman Ahmed ben Bella and absconded with some $12 million in party funds earlier this year, the Algerian government naturally turned to the Swiss banks for clues. Algerian agents went to work, soon became convinced that they had traced the missing money to four numbered accounts in Geneva's Arab Commercial Bank, which is incorporated and operating under Swiss banking laws. Algiers asked the Geneva authorities to take it from there. When Arab Bank Director Zouheir Mardam refused to disclose the identity...
Reason: the only circumstance in which Switzerland's strict Bank Secrecy Law can be breached is in a clear case of crime, and Algeria had never bothered to formally accuse Khider of any crime; it was too preoccupied with getting its' money back...
...been offered to all warring parties in the Communist movement, and the acute embarrassment brought about by Khrushchev's boorish intransigence had been transmuted into a glow of wary hope. How healing this might be for Communist prestige with the "nonaligned" was illustrated by the report that Algeria...
Stanley cited Premier Castro of Cuba, former President Betancourt of Venezuela, Premier Ben Bella of Algeria, former President Paz Estenssoro of Bolivia, and President Sukarno of Indonesia as Communists supported by the U.S. "I ask myself," he said, "'Were we fooled, or was it treason?' It's enough to make you become a right-wing extremist...