Word: bella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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July 30th: "Kiss Me Kate" with the music of Cole Porter and the wit of Bella and Sam Spewack...
Since it gained independence on July i, Algeria has been drifting out of control. Last week there were, in effect, two capitals: Algiers, precariously ruled by Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda, and Tlemcen, near Oran, held by Vice Premier ben Bella, whom his enthusiastic followers compare to the Congo's late rabble-rousing hero, Patrice Lumumba. In a desperate attempt to heal the split between the two factions, the military commanders of the six wilayas (zones) of Algeria met last week at the inland city of Orléansville, interrupting their talks only to take soundings in Algiers and Tlemcen. They...
Meanwhile, the bitter rivals were facing new complications. From Algiers, word came that Benkhedda was finished, and that his future role-no matter what his title-could only be a subordinate one. But the anti-Ben Bella cause is still being upheld by hard-bitten Belkacem Krim, who effectively controls the mountainous region of Kabylia, and by subtle, self-educated Mohammed Boudiaf, 40, who spent most of the war in a French prison with Mohammed ben Bella and grew to mistrust...
...capital" at Tlemcen, Ben Bella also seemed to be losing ground to Colonel Houari Boumedienne, whose dismissal as F.L.N. army chief of staff last month precipitated the row with Benkhedda. It was Boumedienne, a pale, brown-haired former schoolteacher and pronounced left-winger, who last week angrily turned down the Orleansville proposal while Ben Bella was still studying it. Belkacem Krim and Mohammed Boudiaf had been named for the politburo, but Boumedienne denounced them both as "usurpers" and accused them of having "collaborated" with France in the days before Algerian independence...
30th: "Kiss Me Kate" with the music of Cole Porter and the it of Bella and Sam Spewack...