Word: arabization
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...government began eroding such measures of "Arab socialism" as land reform and nationalization. Fortnight ago, the Syrian officer corps overthrew the civilian government and threw the President and his top officials in jail on charges of "corruption and sabotage." But the army corps was not united on what next. Some just wanted a left-of-center government free of Egyptian domination. A younger group of officers, especially those in the Aleppo garrison in the north, wanted a rebirth of the union with Egypt as well as a return to Nasser's all-out socialist policies...
...military headquarters. Nasser partisans seized control of Aleppo radio and practically declared war on Damascus by announcing that "free officers" were in control of northern Syria and demanding instant union with Egypt. "We belong heart and soul to Nasser!" cried the announcer. "We are his lion cubs! Long live Arab unity...
...French army. On one side stood France, which had carried Western civilization into the desert and, despite vast errors of judgment, had built a country in North Africa that had been part of France for more than a century. On the other side were the poor, scattered Arab tribes of Algeria, which found their nationhood in the war. On both sides, there had been fanaticism, brutality and torture. For a time, it seemed as if the Moslems had lost all moderation, as if France had lost her conscience...
...Brothers (See Cover) About 1,300 years ago, when in the words of the chroniclers, "blood flowed across the earth like the waves of the sea," a Joan of Arc named Daia the Prophetess rallied the Berbers of Algeria against an Arab invasion and briefly formed the scattered tribes into a nation. At the reputed age of 127, while still beautiful and still amorous, Daia died sword in hand on the field of battle...
...indigenous Berber population of what is now Algeria has been there since history be gan. A stockily built, brown-haired, light-eyed people, they have bitterly opposed successive conquerors - Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Turks and French. They always lost and always for the same reason: an almost Celtic inability to unite against a common foe. When the French landed in 1830, the Arab-Berbers of Algeria were as divided as ever, and the French found willing allies among the tribes. Even so, it took 40 years of hard fighting to subdue the country...