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...Israel manage to win so big so quickly? Much of the answer can be found in the almost incredible lack of Arab planning, coordination and communications. Despite their swift defeat in 1956, this time the Arabs seemed to expect a long, leisurely war of attrition. Though two squadrons of Algerian MIG-21s arrived, they were a fatal 24 hours too late because Egyptian commanders had failed to instruct them which airbase to head for. In retrospect, it might have been even worse if they had arrived in time for the Israeli raids. Five planeloads of Moroccan troops actually...
...adroit ploy by the most popular leader in the Arab world, an effort to turn ignominy into personal triumph -and it worked. Angry Algerian street mobs who had been shouting "Lynch Nasser!" suddenly changed their tune. Within 30 minutes Iraqi President Abdel Rahman Aref was on the phone to Cairo urging Nasser to reconsider. Lebanese President Charles Helou wept openly when he heard the news. From Baghdad to Beirut, Arab mobs swept into the streets to demonstrate for Nasser. Often the demonstrations took on an ugly anti-Americanism, as in Beirut, where rioters were so unimaginative as to set fire...
Algiers, a center of Viet Cong diplomatic activity, is a particularly likely rendezvous. Some officials consider it noteworthy that Poland's Jerzy Michalkowski, a foreign-office troubleshooter who has been in Hanoi and is also closely in touch with U.S. diplomacy, is now in the Algerian capital. Rangoon is still another possibility, particularly since U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Arthur Goldberg and U.N. Secretary-General U Thant are scheduled to be there at the same time late this month. Goldberg plans to visit Rangoon during a tour of a dozen European and Asian nations, and while he insists...
Their rule was broken by the French conquest in the 19th century, but Morocco still claims its former lands, including much of the Algerian Sahara, the northern parts of Senegal and Mali and all of Mauritania. Morocco's territorial claims are plainly unacceptable to its neighbors, who brand them "neo-imperialism," and embarrassing to its friends. For all Washington's interest in protecting Morocco, it cannot afford to give Hassan's army anything more than defensive weapons...
Died. Mohammed Khider, 53, exiled Algerian opposition leader, a pragmatic nationalist who was one of the major rebel chiefs in the eight-year war of independence against France, later as Secretary-General of the ruling F.L.N. Party opposed too close liaisons with Soviet and Chinese Communists, a stand that, among other reasons, eventually alienated him from his colleagues to the point where he fled the country in 1964 with $14 million in party funds and spent his hours plotting to overthrow first Ben Bella, and then his successor Boumediene; of bullet wounds inflicted by an unknown assassin; in Madrid...