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The students are among 24 Algerians who have been relocated in the U.S. by means of scholarships granted by NSA and the State Department's International Institute of Education.
The UGEMA, whose Paris headquarters were raided and shut down in May, 1958, reestablished itself in Tunis and sent out pleas for scholarship aid on behalf of the refugee students.
Most of the students were studying in France on scholarships provided by the French government. Their scholarships were cut off as a result of their participation in a "protest strike" in May, 1956 against French colonialist policy.
The four-day conference will deal mainly with Algerian culture and heritage, said organizer Alex Korns '62, and NSA representative Don Clifford. Paul E. Sigmund, Jr., Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Quincy House, and Elliot J. Berg, teaching fellow in Economics, will address the group.
The visitors are all members of UGEMA, the General Union of Moslem Algerian Students, an organization which actively supports the Algerian government in exile, the FLN.