Word: amar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indians on the continent ever to hold high political office is Sir Amar Nath Maini, Uganda's Minister of Corporations and Regional Communications. Says he: "I know perfectly well that to take office under the British administration means to take the political kiss of death. But what's the alternative? Integration? This 'We-demand-no-special-rights, we-just-want-to-be-brown-Africans' attitude won't get us anywhere. The Syrians tried it in Ghana, and now they are being squeezed dry and flung out. We can come to terms with the African...
Bourguiba turned hostile, and Yahmed resigned from the Cabinet. The final break came when Bourguiba brought to trial Millionaire Tahar ben Amar, a moderate nationalist who served as interim Premier before Bourguiba took over. Although Ben Amar was charged with tax evasion, the government used the trial to accuse him of "treason" in helping the Bey's family smuggle jewels from the country. Complained old Ben Amar: "I did not want to be Premier in the first place. I only accepted because Bourguiba pleaded with me to accept." The court's finding: no treasonable behavior, but it levied...
...failure in Algiers cost him his power. Though still in the high command, he became less influential than the more moderate Ferhat Abbas or the two military commanders of the Kabyles, Amar Ouamrane and Belkacem Krim. The newer leadership aimed at combining the fighting in Algeria with diplomatic maneuvers and appeals to world opinion. Abbane protested against the new line loudly and ineffectually, was often seen eating a solitary meal in cheap restaurants. One day he disappeared from Tunis, was rumored under house arrest until last week's notice of his death...
Chief of the five military leaders is a barrel-chested, 38-year-old former French army sergeant who styles himself "Colonel" Amar Ouamrane. One of the original planners of the 1954 uprising that launched the rebellion, Ouamrane has a reputation for savage ferocity, is currently coordinating military activities on the increasingly important "Sahara front," where last week rebels attacked a party of French oil prospectors and killed 24. "Remember," said one FLN leader, "that even a minor Saharan incident will shake French and foreign-oil interests abroad." Ouamrane's chief of staff is bespectacled Belkacem Krim, 35, a ruthless...
Tunisia's Premier Tahar ben Amar was also in Paris to negotiate fresh concessions from the French. The day the Moroccan declaration was signed, Premier ben Amar conferred earnestly with Ben Youssef. Between them, the Moroccans and Tunisians had set up a political whipsaw which had France dodging. Tunisia was the first to win local self-government, from then-Premier Mendès-France. Moroccans promptly demanded the same thing, and with the precedent of Tunisia, no succeeding government could deny them. Now the Tunisians were back to get whatever the Moroccans got. Said Ben Youssef to Premier...