Word: bella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Many of the nations represented at the congress strongly opposed Tshombe's attendance. Three leaders, Nkrumah of Ghana, Ben Bella of Algeria and Hassan II of Morocco, had refused in July to sit with Tshombe at a meeting of the Organization of African Unity. On October 4, Nasser asked Kasavubu, President of the Congo, to come himself and leave Tshombe home. At the congress' opening session, Nasser made a thinly veiled reference to Tshombe's policies in the Congo when he said, "a trade in mercenaries is being practiced without honor and without shame" for the sake of neocolonialism...
...national election that President Ahmed ben Bella could not lose...
...Bella's government crowed that the turnout was 85%, not much below the figure last year when the electorate ratified Ben Bella as President. But Western observers, who found general apathy and indifference, felt that 60% would be closer to the truth. Indeed a cautious Ben Bella had forgone the usual pre-election mass meetings and rallies for fear that they might be lacking in enthusiasm and crowds, had confined the campaign to small neighborhood gatherings. Algiers' polling places were almost empty on election-day afternoon, though the official radio said they were kept open late "because...
...National Assembly, only a rubber stamp of the regime in any case, has been purged of the few remaining "retrogrades" and "unworthy militants." Ben Bella's scattered opposition now works aimlessly toward some kind of unity. Its leaders find that though the masses are apathetic toward Ben Bella and his "Islamic socialism," they seem equally indifferent to the rebels; even Rebel Chief Aït Ahmed has been complaining of "public lassitude." Perhaps the wisest Algerian of them all is Mohammed Khider, who made his opposition to Ben Bella clear by going into self-exile in Europe, and took...