Premier Ahmed Ben Bella attended yesterday a mass meeting and an exhibition here to launch a week of anti-Israel propaganda throughout Algeria. Similar meetings were staged under Government sponsorship in all major centers.
The Government-controlled press and radio urged Algerians to support “the just cause of Arab Palestine.” Although an office of Palestinian Arabs was set up in Algiers last year, the events yesterday marked the first time that the Government had put its propaganda machine into action in support of that cause.
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