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...ALGERIA Violence Begets Violence in North Africa Berber demonstrators took on police in the Algerian city of Bejaïa. They were protesting a crackdown that followed riots - over a student's death in detention - that left at least 40 dead. The Berbers, one-third of the population, are demanding official recognition of their language, Tamazight, as well as employment and better housing. Though Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced an inquiry into the causes of the clashes, the main Berber party pulled out of the government...
Meanwhile, in the southern Portuguese town of Beja, guerrillas of a group known as FP-25 bombed 18 Mercedes-Benz cars belonging mostly to West German military personnel at a German air force training base. No one was seriously injured. Earlier in the week, FP-25 terrorists fired rocket-propelled grenades at six NATO ships in Lisbon harbor. The barrage fell short of the targets...
...certain to hamper the government's control of agrarian reform in the area; attempts to return some farm lands seized by dissident workers to their original owners have already led to violence. Last week five Communists were arrested and charged with defying government authority for organizing demonstrations; in Beja, the newly elected parish council threatened a general strike unless they were released. So far, 2.5 million acres have been nationalized or expropriated under the program and turned into cooperatives and collective farms; another 1.8 million acres are slated to be taken over. The amount of land to be returned...
Died. Colonel Hans Handler, 63, commander since 1965 of Vienna's 400-year-old Spanish Riding School, home of the white Lipizzaner stallions; of a stroke while putting his horse Siglavy Beja through its paces in the riding hall of Vienna's Imperial Castle...
...exile. In 1961, a band of his supporters seized the Portuguese cruise ship Santa Maria and steamed off into the South Atlantic while Lisbon fumed. A year later, Delgado slipped back into Portugal in time for an uprising that collapsed with a halfhearted attack on the army barracks at Beja. When not quarreling with fellow exiles, Delgado spent the following years traveling in North Africa and behind the Iron Curtain trying to drum up support for his Front of National Liberation...