Word: khemisti
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...Nasser sailed into Algiers harbor to begin his state visit. The day he arrived, an Algerian minesweeper that had escorted Nasser's yacht sank with the loss of three crewmen. Then a pall was cast over the celebrations by the death of Algeria's Foreign Minister Mohammed Khemisti, who had been shot by a crazed assassin (see MILESTONES). On top of all that, a most unusual tornado swept across the country, killing twelve Algerians in one village. Many a superstitious Algerian peasant was convinced that the Egyptian visitor had brought a hex with him. But there...
...Died. Mohammed Khemisti, 32, Algeria's young Foreign Minister, a staunch backer and longtime friend of Premier ben Bella, who put aside old hatreds to become the prime architect of Algeria's post-revolutionary cooperation with France, winning himself the high respect of Western diplomats; of a head wound received 24 days earlier when an insane Moslem shot him at point-blank range; in Algiers...
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