Word: messali
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Ahmed Messali Hadj, 76, patriarch of the Algerian nationalist movement; in Paris. Tireless and magnetic, Messali began assailing French colonialism in the 1920s, spent years in jail and under house arrest, and saw himself as the Gandhi of North Africa. But when the struggle for Algerian independence intensified in the 1950s, he was regarded as an ineffectual anachronism by the militant F.L.N. (National Liberation Front). Ignored by the Algerian government after independence, Messali lived out his years an exile in France...