Word: bella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Caroline Kennedy and her kindergarten classmates have been declared personae non gratae during future official White House welcoming ceremonies. Reason: last week, when the President greeted visiting Algerian Premier Ahmed ben Bella on the White House south lawn with a solemn military review and a 21-gun salute, Caroline and her playmates watched from a third-floor window, began mimicking the military commands with cries of "Attention!" "Shoulder arms!" and "Boom! Boom...
...wishing to show how even-handed his politics were had to journey half a world, to Washington and Moscow. Now he can achieve the same effect on the cheap, by a trip to the U.N. with layovers in Washington and Havana. Last week Algeria's Premier Ahmed ben Bella, 45, leading his new nation into "constructive neutrality," said goodbye to President Kennedy one day and hello to Fidel Castro the next...
Courageous Stand. On the subject of Algeria's relations with France, and on the rights of Europeans in Algeria guaranteed under the Evian Agreement, Ben Bella sounded eminently reasonable. In several meetings, he urged France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville to help persuade French industrialists and technicians to aid in reopening Algeria's closed factories, and to see that French doctors and teachers returned to their posts. Though an avowed socialist, Ben Bella insisted that Algeria would have "a mixed economy including both state and private industry." In an hour-long chat with Russia...
This week Ben Bella boarded President Kennedy's plane for the flight to Washington and lunch at the White House. "My first thought in seeing Mr. Kennedy," he said, "is to thank him for his courageous stand as Senator when he called for Algerian independence back in 1957." Denning his own nonaligned position, Ben Bella said it is based on "the principles of anti-imperialism" and "opposes military alliances. It supports general disarmament and peaceful coexistence...
...Even Ben Bella may not yet be sure to whose tune he will eventually dance. But as of last week, his words were not those of a Communist-or necessarily even a kissin' cousin of Communism-but of a nationalist faced with possibly insuperable problems at home and little time for intrigue abroad...