Word: houari
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neared the end of his seven-day shuttle through the region last week, Kissinger tried to lighten the situation with some levity during a three-hour call on Algerian President Houari Boumedienne. "You should invite me to the summit," joked the Secretary of State. "I've met more Arab heads of state than some Arab foreign ministers." Kissinger obviously will not be welcome at Rabat, but he is confident that his gradualist strategy will be put forward by President Anwar Sadat of Egypt...
Aware of Moscow's feeling, Kissinger prefaced his fifth Middle East trip in seven months last week with a stopover in Geneva for nine hours of discussions with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. The Secretary flew on to Algiers for brief talks with President Houari Boumedienne with only a negative promise from Gromyko. The Russians did not endorse any particular series of disengagement proposals. They merely agreed, one U.S. official reported later, "not to work against the concept of disengagement...
Warm Applause. The instigator of the conference was Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, who urged creation of a "union of raw-materials-producing countries" that could sock home the message that henceforth those nations "insist on being masters in their own houses." He was greeted by warm applause from Third World delegates, who disregarded the fact that their poor nations are being hurt much worse than the industrialized countries by the rise in oil prices. Boumedienne appeared to be trying, all too successfully, to distract attention from that fact and undercut U.S. efforts to weld oil-burning nations into a bloc...
...Gaddafi, is the Arab world's most vehement critic of the U.S. Those nations would not even attend a meeting two weeks ago in Cairo that was supposed to proclaim what most of the Arab governments already had privately decided: that the embargo should be lifted. Algerian President Houari Boumedienne insisted that the meeting be held in Tripoli as originally scheduled...
...strengthen Arab unity. He played a major role in Lahore, Pakistan, last week as delegates from 38 nations met for a quinquennial Islamic summit. As expected. Middle Eastern issues dominated the agenda. The Islamic leaders -including Saudi Arabia's King Faisal, Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi, Algerian President Houari Boumedienne as well as Sadat and Assad-issued a strong demand for the eventual return of Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem...