Word: houari
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another of Sadat's problems is to reconcile the Moslem extremism of Saudi Arabia's King Feisal and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi-who last week bitterly attacked his erstwhile Egyptian ally for agreeing to a cease-fire-with the revolutionary ardor of Marxist Arab leaders like Houari Boumedienne of Algeria. In fact, Egypt's leadership hopes that an Arab summit meeting prior to the start of the peace talks in December can be postponed...
...them. Among those who flew from capital to capital last week in a frenzied series of conferences and consultations that left jet contrails all across the Mediterranean sky was Jordan's King Hussein, who made swift visits to Syria, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Kuwait. Algerian President Houari Boumedienne dropped into Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, Kuwait and Riyadh in an effort to arrange an Arab summit. Libya's Muammar Gaddafi warned of a return to war and urged the defeat of Israel; his cries were echoed by Iraq's President Ahmed Hassan Bakr...
...midweek, no doubt encouraged by the Arabs' unexpected combat prowess, Brezhnev sent messages to Arab leaders asking them to give "the greatest possible support" to Egypt and Syria. The two countries, he told Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, "must not remain alone in their struggle against a perfidious enemy" and urged him to contribute Algerian combat experience. Arabs read this as both a militant exhortation and a cautionary note urging self-reliance...
After the airport greeting by Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, each of the visiting heads of state (59 in all, plus representatives from 17 other nations) was driven off to the elegant Club des Pins, a seaside resort above the Mediterranean. Atop each white stucco villa flew the standard of its occupant, making the resort look like some encampment of medieval knights about to go into combat...
...Chief James Bell,* marked the latest setback for Cleaver in his rapidly worsening relations with his Algerian hosts. Cleaver had been welcomed as a revolutionary hero in 1969, after jumping bail and evading arrest on charges arising from a 1968 Panther shootout in Oakland, Calif. The government of President Houari Boumedienne set him up in a white stucco villa in the diplomatic suburb of El Biar and granted him an allowance of $500 a month. Cleaver adorned the villa with two brass plaques, each engraved with a leaping black panther. The inscription announced that the building was the headquarters...