Word: chaalal
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...price increases on manufactured goods the oil producers buy. The world recession has reduced demand for oil enough to create a sizable glut, but OPEC members are cutting production rather than making any substantial reduction in prices. "We are masters of the oil price," declared Messaoud Aït-Chaalal, chief Algerian delegate to the Paris conference...
Closely allied with the revolutionary F.L.N., Chaalal, age 30, denounced the French for "massive repression" of F.L.N. leaders. "Although the French have tried to decapitate our movement," said Chaalal, "the repression has only reinforced our desire to fight for independence at any price...
...crowded Winthrop House forum that lasted into the early morning hours, seven young North African leaders--of student, labor and "scouting" movements in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco--heard their spokesman, Ait Chaalal, President of the General Union of Algerian Moslem Students, put forth the cause of Algerian freedom and independence from France...
...French, said Chaalal, have "trumped, tricked, fabricated" previous elections in Algeria. Alluding to the "facility of General de Gaulle's language," he insisted on the "integrity of the Algerian national territory." Although de Gaulle has made vague proposals for regional referenda in Algeria (concerning independence), Chaalal said that the Sahara oil resources belong to Algeria, and that the country must gain freedom "as a whole...
...Further, Chaalal questioned de Gaulle's good faith, and also some of the French leader's proposals for an end to Algerian hostilities: specifically, that the French people, in a referendum of their own, would have to approve any Algerian decision...
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