STUDENTS DEMONSTRATE IN ALGIERS AGAINST THE U.S.
A demonstration involving around 2,000 students was staged in Algiers April 24 in front of the American Cultural Center.
Chanting slogans against U.S. imperialism, they burned an effigy of Johnson and a coffin draped with an American flag.
The demonstrators were on their way to a mass meeting in observance of World Youth Day Against Colonialism and Imperialism.
They stopped at the American center
to shout, "Johnson murderer!" and "U.S.
Go Home."
Someone aimed a rock with great
accuracy at one of the display windows.
Police then moved in with riot sticks and
broke up the demonstration.
The Boumedienne regime, since it
came to power in June 1965 in a coup
d'état, has displayed great nervousness
about any kind of demonstrations, even
those clearly directed against the most
hated power in the world.
U.S.