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...money. He reads foreign policy treatises for relaxation, travels 150,000 miles annually with his svelte wife Sonja, 38, inspecting regions and making courtesy calls on Presidents and Prime Ministers. Bata hires local labor for each plant but likes to shift key men from country to country: his Algerian plant is run by an American, a Chilean is in charge of Mexico, and at Batawa the chiefs for testing and efficiency are an Indian and a Pakistani. "We are cross-pollinators," says Bata. "We have no preferred nationality, after all, all men have two feet...
...next day, Tshombe slipped into Cairo before dawn in another attempt to crash the conference. He was captured by Egyptian security forces, placed in a guest house guarded by paratroopers, and held incommunicado. In retaliation, Congolese policemen, and later troops, sealed off the Egyptian and Algerian embassies in Leopoldville. Nasser then announced that he would hold Tshombe until the Congolese police withdrew from the embassy. Congolese forces withdrew from the embassies on October 8, and Tshombe took off for Paris the next morning...
When word reached Leopoldville of Tshombe's detention, Congolese gendarmes laid siege to the Egyptian and Algerian embassies in the heart of the city by way of retaliation, cutting off food and phone service. All this set off a diplomatic brouhaha that ended only when Tshombe telephoned from Cairo two days later with word that as soon as the Egyptian and Algerian diplomats were released and had reached haven in Brazzaville across the river, Nasser would spring Tshombe. Escorted out of Leopoldville by Nigerian troops under U.N. command, the embassy staffs loaded three car ferries with everything from refrigerators...
...scattered opposition now works aimlessly toward some kind of unity. Its leaders find that though the masses are apathetic toward Ben Bella and his "Islamic socialism," they seem equally indifferent to the rebels; even Rebel Chief Aït Ahmed has been complaining of "public lassitude." Perhaps the wisest Algerian of them all is Mohammed Khider, who made his opposition to Ben Bella clear by going into self-exile in Europe, and took with him $1,000,000 in party funds...
...ordered Bianchini to appear for disciplining. He haughtily refused, declaring "I am the viceroy!", and threatened to bust up his ex-cronies if they caused trouble. A few days later, as he was leaving a bar, Bianchini walked into a nonfatal blast of buckshot. Soon afterward, two of the Algerian maquereaux were driving through the heart of Nice when another car pulled alongside and riddled them with tommy guns. Then two more of Bianchini's henchmen were disposed of: one was found dead at the bottom of a ravine with four bullets in his head; the other staggered into...