Word: khedda
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Princes: Cambodia's Norodom Sihanouk and Yemen's Seif el Islam el Hassan. Foreign Ministers: Guinea's Beavogui Lansana, Saudi Arabia's Ibraham Sowail and Iraq's Hashim Jawad. Prime Ministers: Afghanistan's Sardar Mohammed Baud, the Algerian F.L.N.'s Youssef Ben Khedda, Burma's U Nu, Ceylon's Mme. Bandaranaike, India's Nehru and Lebanon's Saeb Salaam. Presidents: Cuba's Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado, Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios, Ghana's Nkrumah, Indonesia's Sukarno, Mali's Keita, Somalia's Adben Abdullah Osman...
...three-week secret conference in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. 80 members of the F.L.N.'s National Council tossed out Abbas and installed a new team headed by Premier Youssef Ben Khedda. 41. who is convinced that the West is so committed to "colonialism and imperialism'' that the F.L.N. "must look elsewhere for salvation...
Thin. pale, with long black hair and burning eyes screened by spectacles, Ben Khedda performed his first revolutionary act at the age of 14 by scrawling "Long live Algerian independence!'' on the wall of his Algerian school. His extreme nationalism carried him to leadership among the Moslem students at the University of Algiers, and he was twice jailed by the French, winning his release the second time through the intervention of French liberals who had worked with him in the Algiers Boy Scout movement...
...Khedda promptly disappeared into the underground, surfaced a few months later in the Kabylia Mountains as the political commissar of an F.L.N. guerrilla band headed by famed Belkacem Krim. Moving on to Algiers, Ben Khedda helped plan and carry out the ruthless terrorist campaign in which killings of Europeans ran as high as a hundred a month. He lived under four aliases, grew a large mustache, boldly frequented the Cafe Otomatic, a favorite hangout of European rightists. The F.L.N. grip on Algiers was not broken until the summer of 1957. when General Jacques Massu and his French paratroops began...
...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...