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...into socialism. It is a land where 3,000,000 out of 12 million people are unemployed and 2,000,000 more are only partially employed. It is a land of piercing poverty, bitter-cold winters and scorching hot summers-all of which have combined to drive 700,000 Algerians to Europe for work and relief. France has 600 Algerian graduate engineers, while Algeria itself has only...
Algeria's leader clearly wants the help to keep coming. Though Boumediene still rails against "criminal American aggression in Viet Nam," he is privately imploring the U.S. for 500,000 tons of wheat. To improve relations with France, which has whittled Algerian aid by 50% because of continued friction between the two countries, Boumediene's government signed a new treaty with Paris last week that clears up at least one major area of dispute-the amount and terms of repayment of Algeria's pre-independence debt. Under the agreement, Algeria agreed to pay France $80 million...
...third of the national budget on military hardware, most of it bought from Russia. In the process, Boumediene has built Algeria into the third largest military power in Africa, after Egypt and South Africa. He has also built a menacing opposition. Though he has purged his enemies from the Algerian Labor Federation and sacked rivals on the 24-man Revolutionary Council, many pro-Ben Bella men still surround him in high government posts. Outside the country, powerful exiles like Independence Hero Mohammed Boudiaf are threatening to organize subversion against him. Ben Bella, who could well be the leader of such...
...pressure. The Persian Gulf countries want high pumping quotas as insurance against competition from new oil sources being developed in areas closer to world markets. By year's end Libya will pass Iraq in production, rank fourth in the Middle East (after Saudi Arabia, Kuwait ,and Iran). Algerian production is growing and tiny Tunisia became an exporter for the first time this year. Before long, Egypt will be in the market, thanks to a Phillips Petroleum strike near El Alamein announced last week...
...Battle of Algeria, Gillo Pontecorvo's earnest, overlong semi-documentary about the bitter struggle for Algerian independence, impressed the judges so much that they awarded it the festival's Gold Lion, even as it outraged the touchy French. Fahrenheit 451 earned quieter but more general appreciation. Directed by France's gifted Francois Truffaut (Jules and Jim) and blessed by the presence in the leads of Julie Christie and Oskar Werner, Fahrenheit is a Ray Bradbury story that takes a disturbing look at a future world in which the printed word is forbidden and every last book...