Word: cherif
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...although unstinting in verbal support for Algeria's Moslem rebels, the Kremlin has given little or no concrete help, has not even recognized the rebel F.L.N. "provisional government." But Red China does recognize the rebel government, and recently feted two of its leaders, Mahmoud Cherif and Youssef ben Khedda, in Peking. Because of the geographical distance, direct Chinese aid could scarcely be anything but financial. But what worries the French more is the possibility that Peking might pressure...
...mood for Algerian independence or for giving up the fight. De Gaulle's room for maneuver was small. Extremists in the rebel F.L.N., in one of those unmistakable gestures meant to show that they had no intention of compromising, shot down 67-year-old Senator Cherif Benhabyles, an Algerian, in the streets of Vichy. A friend of F.L.N. Leader Ferhat Abbas, Benhabyles had offered to be a link in discussions with the French...
Okon Bassey Asuquo is the son of a Nigerian farmer and a Member of the Order of the British Empire. He received this accolade from Queen Elizabeth last year, after, as Hogan ("Kid") Bassey, he reduced a French-Algerian pugilist named Cherif Hamia to bloody stupor and became the featherweight champion of the world. In the measured tones appropriate when speaking of an M.B.E., his English manager George Biddles declared, shortly after Bassey's first title defense: "I rather fancy that Hogan will be about some time as featherweight champion." In Los Angeles last week, the prophecy foundered...
Paradoxically, two of the leading moderates are the Cabinet's military men -Minister of War Belkacem Krim, a moody, 35-year-old Berber with five death sentences over his head, and Minister of Supply Mahmoud Cherif, 43, a onetime career lieutenant in the French army. The extremists are the politicians, notably Foreign Minister Mohammed...
...first name Okon) began boxing when he was twelve. In the ten years since he started fighting for pay, he has moved to Liverpool and has put together a record of 62 fights with only ten losses. He won the featherweight title last summer by beating Algeria's Cherif Hamia. And last week not even Los Angeles' visiting Mexicans would challenge Bassey's manager, George Biddies, when he announced elegantly: "I rather fancy that Hogan will be about some time as featherweight champion...