Word: moussa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saddled with the task of restoring at least a semblance of normality is the country's new leader, Moussa Traore, 32, an army lieutenant who graduated first in his class from France's Overseas Officers' School at Frejus some years ago. Under his direction, the National Liberation Committee has moved quickly to consolidate its rule. It ordered statues and portraits of the imposing Keita torn down, the Red Guard militia abolished. Free elections have been promised, and private enterprise has been invited into the country. Clearly, the new rulers of the former French colony were abandoning Keita...
Then began one of the most bizarre incidents in the U.N.'s often bizarre history. Moussa L. Keita of Mali, president during April of the 15-nation council, simply refused to call a meeting. In league with other Black African nations opposed to Ian Smith, Keita was trying to buy time, and to draw up some stiffer amendments calling for total mandatory sanctions that would be enforced mainly by the British. Growing more impatient by the hour, U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg met with British Representative Lord Caradon and delegates from nine other member nations, and the group staged...
...Wilson government demonstrated both restraint and forcefulness during the crisis--especially in dealing with Security Council President Moussa L. Keita of Mali when he inexcusably delayed the meeting. But it should be prepared to take broader measures if the existing sanctions do not bring Smith to his knees. Thirty thousand gallons of oil have flowed daily from South Africa during the past two months, and there is good reason to question the effectiveness of the sanctions in other areas as well...
...Algeria last week Hocine Ait Ahmed and an officer named Si Moussa sat in prison cells awaiting execution. Their four-day trial had taken place before a three-man "revolutionary criminal court." Ait Ahmed, 39, a French-trained lawyer, was captured last October after leading an underground movement aimed at toppling the government of President Ahmed ben Bella, his onetime comrade in arms in the F.L.N. struggle against the French. The state demanded the death sentence, and the 15 defense lawyers-Algerian, Moroccan, French and Swiss-finally quit the courtroom in protest at the methods of the tribunal, especially...
...Monday evening, the regular news broadcast was 35 minutes late, and the time was filled with soft music. Then came the announcement: Ben Bella had personally commuted the death sentences of Ait Ahmed and Si Moussa to life imprisonment. Both men will probably be sent deep into the Sahara where they can keep company with former Premier Ferhat Abbas, former Justice Minister Amar Bentoumi, and several former deputies, including Abderrahmane Fares, ex-President of the provisional executive government. In Algeria, the revolution does not devour its children; it merely buries them in the desert...