Word: algerias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of Israel's heightened anger seemed due to the continuing detention in Algiers of an El Al Boeing airliner, seven crewmen and five Israeli passengers, the victims of a commando hijacking last month. Last week, in a novel legal gambit, Iraq announced that it would sue in Algeria to have the Boeing impounded pending release of an Iraqi MIG-21 that a defecting pilot had flown to Israel last year. But international pressure was building up for release of the El Al plane and the detained Israelis. Commercial pilots spoke of boycotting Algerian airports. Israel enlisted...
...bloody and futile efforts of the French to hang on to a lost empire in Indo-China, the insurrection in Greece, the partition riots in India. In a litany of violence, they tick off wars and disorders in Palestine, Malaya, the big conflict in Korea, Quemoy-Matsu, Algeria, Hungary, Suez, South Arabia, Cyprus, Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, the Congo, Angola, Indonesia, the Philippines, Laos, Viet Nam, and the third violent clash between Israel and the Arabs...
Frank Dawley, a young ex-factory worker, has deserted his wife and his pregnant mistress to fight for the F.L.N. against the French in Algeria. His journey turns into what might be called an existential Pilgrim's Progress. Is he simply trying to escape the ties of his former life, or is he really bent on revolutionizing the world by fighting for Communism and the Algerians? The relentless sun becomes a more formidable combatant than the French, the endless sand a more unarguable reality than any dialectic...
...author attempts a parallel but fails to sustain it. But Sillitoe is himself obviously more at home in Algeria and its stark alternatives than in the equivocal uncertainties of the sybaritic world of his Lincolnshire artist...
Israel at once started dealing through diplomatic channels for the return of the plane, its male Israeli passengers and crew. It may take a while. Algeria formally declared war on Israel a year ago and rejected the cease-fire that ended the six-day Arab-Israeli conflict. Because El Al carried military cargo in the war, Algeria considers it a paramilitary organization. Furthermore, there is local precedent for long detention of unexpected guests. When a private plane carrying former Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe was hijacked to Algiers in June of last year, the Algerians took three months to release...