Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the fanfare that greets every aid shipment from the Communist bloc, Algeria is being kept alive by France, which is pumping $2,000,000 a day into its former colony. While French aid is to be drastically reduced after Jan. 1, France will continue to be Algeria's biggest market and capital source. Thus, what chiefly worries Western diplomats in Algiers is Ben Bella's contemptuous disregard for the Evian agreements that set the terms for France's withdrawal from Algeria. The Premier, who was still a prisoner of the French when the accord was drawn...
...friendship for the West has survived the bitterness of war. Most Moslems seem to be aware that U.S. surplus food, though little publicized, is supplying three-quarters of the daily diet for 3,000,000 Algerians. As in other new African countries, the people are also discovering that Communist-bloc aid is mostly window dressing; since Khrushchev's hasty retreat from Cuba, they have become even more leary of Soviet attempts to make Ben Bella the Castro of Africa. Whatever the subject under discussion, Algerians often ask: "What is reality?" A government official in Algiers asked the question last...
...think the South Africans had it coming to them," said Rupert Emerson '22, professor of Government, "but I'm skeptical if it will have much real effect." Emerson added that many of the Afro-Asian bloc nations who voted for the resolution have already applied boycotts of South African goods and that three quarters of that nation's trade is with countries who voted against...
There were moments last week when the Kremlin seemed to have less trouble coexisting with the U.S. than with the Communist bloc (or blocs). While the world was positively smothered in peace talk from Moscow about how Nikita Khrushchev's wisdom had prevented a war between the U.S. and Russia, there were audible rumblings of dissension in the Communist realm...