Word: berbers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Toumliline was founded above the Berber town of Azrou in 1952 by a group of French monks who chose the site-about 100 miles southeast of the Moroccan capital of Rabat-because it was suitably remote for contemplation. At first, French colonial authorities tried to persuade the monks to Christianize the area's Berber tribesmen (and thus play them off against Arab nationalists in the cities), but Prior Dom Denis Martin and his monks refused to cooperate. "It would be criminal to convert Moslems," said Dom Denis, explaining that any converts would be outcasts in their own country. Instead...
...haunting backdrop of the Atlas Mountains. Now pleasant French nouvelles riches wear mink or sable coats as they trip down to the Mamounia Hotel's heated pool.* A few blocks away, in the teeming public square known as Djemaa el Fna, or Assembly of the Dead, robed Berber men and veiled women chew on fried locusts while they watch snake charmers toy with defanged black cobras, or listen to interminable tales of storytellers perpetuating the tradition of the Thousand and One Nights. In Fez, Morocco's ancient center of Islamic culture, the sleek, European-style Merinides Hotel shares...
...extract a little something extra. A businessman, bank or civic organization that coughed up the cash for a work he had his eye on, could count on being eulogized in his publications. Anyone who balked might find himself attacked (as was one industrialist) as "a bandit, pachyderm, hippopotamus, Berber filibuster, Barbary pirate...
...civilian plotters that included Boumediene's Labor Minister Abdelaziz Zerdani. Flamboyant but Uneducated. Tensions between Boumediene and his army chief had been building ever since the two men combined their forces to overthrow the demagogic Ahmed ben Bella in June 1965. Zbiri, 37, a flamboyant but uneducated Berber tribesman who had fought against the French as a guerrilla chieftain, was a believer in the purity of the revolution and all its impossible promises of socialist equality and prosperity...
Little Difference. The ease with which Boumediene put down the conspirators does not mean that his troubles are over. Zbiri, still at large, commands the loyalties of a good many of Algeria's military men. Also behind him are the country's Berber minority, the revolutionary zealots who despise Boumediene's practical technocrats and, in all probability, the 200,000 members of the Algerian General Workers Union, whose power Boumediene has systematically underminded...