Word: mourad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Algerians from rural villages are flocking to the cities, where few can find jobs. Roughly 40% of the work force is unemployed, and countless thousands of young men spend their time playing dominoes and drinking beer in murky cafes off the Didouche Mourad, Algiers' principal thoroughfare. One diplomat described them as "hooligans in the making" and suggested that the government ought to be worried. So far there are no signs of incipient revolt, and Correspondent Scott found the atmosphere in Algiers one of phlegmatic indolence rather than seething resentment. Graffiti are rare in a secret-police state...
...spurns them -particularly those with wanton Western ways. He is a gentle man, except when provoked. "There is a time for diplomacy and there is a time for fighting," he says. "The time for diplomacy is long past. Violence must be answered with violence." He is Lieut. Mourad Saber, 32, Agent SM-15 of Algerian counterespionage, and he is at least twice the man that 007 ever...
After all, who but Mourad Saber sleeps with one eye open against the militarist, fascist Zionists? Who else could uncover a Central American conspiracy linking the United Fruit Co. and B'nai B'rith? Who else could resist the sensual, calculating Israeli agent Judith Hertz ("You have the body of a goddess but the soul of a devil")? Who else could interrupt an African chase to lecture streetwalkers in Lourenço Marques on the evils of colonialism...
...Mourad Saber could steel himself to the charms of Asmaa, daughter of his trustworthy Saudi Arabian assistant? As she served Saber fish soup, "her dress had an outrageously low neckline; her shoulders were bare almost to her breasts. Mourad was not made of wood; he blushed and a shiver went down his spine. 'Asmaa,' he said sternly, 'you lack reserve...