Word: bella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Parisian Shakedown. The contagion of violence reached to Paris itself. There the supporters of Messali Hadj's Algerian National Movement and those of the National Liberation Front formerly directed by Cairo-based leaders such as the captured Mohammed ben Bella, feuded like Chicago-style gangs over the privilege of shaking down the city's 80,000 Algerians for contributions. One Algerian objected that he did not want to take sides; his body was fished out of the Seine a few days later. Café owners who contributed to the National Liberation Front had their stocks smashed by Hadj...
...minutes later the Algerians (accompanied by nine newsmen) took off in a chartered DC-3 of Air Atlas, Moroccan-operated but staffed with French crews. Unsuspecting, Mohammed ben Bella, the Algerian military chief (who won the Croix de guerre as a sergeant in World War II), settled down to study papers. Mohammed Khider, the underground's political chief, scanned Paris-Match...
...routine "Please do not move till the plane is completely stopped," then disappeared into the pilot's compartment. Tommy gun-toting gendarmes pried open the plane's back door, poured into the cabin while the passengers were still tied down in their safety belts. Ben Bella said: "All right, we're coming out." One by one the passengers, hands high, got down to the tarmac and were taken away. Shouted Ben Bella: "This is how you can trust the French...
...confronted with a statement by Dr. Bella Dodd, in 1946 a prominent New York Communist and Teachers Union leader who later broke with the party. Its gist: Javits had visited her in 1946 "in connection with his political career." Replied...
...Councilor Georges Gorse, a former Socialist deputy married to an Egyptian, traveled to Cairo, ostensibly to discuss trade but actually to meet the members of the National Liberation Front in their Cairo headquarters. More recently, French representatives unofficially got in touch with the rebels' military leader, Mohammed Ben Bella, on one of his trips to Madrid. So far there has been no progress, since the National Liberation leaders insist the French must first recognize the "fact of Algerian nationality...