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...from the West, not the East, to keep his struggling country afloat. Only last week, Finance Minister Ahmed Francis returned from Paris with pledges of $280 million in French aid for 1963. At the same time, the U.S. tentatively agreed to launch a food relief program for hard-hit Algerian peasants; Ben Bella hopes this can be broadened into a sweeping program of economic aid before long...
Emptied by War. Ravaged by 7½ years of war with France, the bloody S.A.O. terror and a fratricidal power struggle that soured the first months of independence, Algeria needs every centime it can get. Only one Algerian in ten has a steady job. The illiteracy rate is 90%. Officials figure that the country needs at least $2 billion to rebuild, but the treasury is bare. Said Ben Bella: "We are a country emptied...
Year of Austerity. To strengthen his shaky position, Ben Bella is clearing the field of opposition-by persuasion where possible, force where necessary. He has banned all parties except his National Liberation Front (F.L.N.). Fortnight ago, he ousted extreme leftist leaders of the 300,000-member General Union of Algerian Workers because they were resisting his rapprochement with France, replaced them with trusted pro-government men. Though the problems of regionalism and marauding guerrillas still plague him, he has managed to win over most of the hostile tribal chieftains in the hinterlands to his side...
...most perishable commodities in the Arab world seems to be gratitude. When Algeria won independence from France after seven years of bloody war, its people were deeply indebted to neighboring Tunisia, whose President Habib Bourguiba, 59, had given shelter to 200,000 Algerian refugees and provided a refuge for the training and equipment of 18,000 Algerian fighting...
Bourguiba ridiculed 46-year-old Algerian Premier Ahmed ben Bella as "an inexperienced, excited youth," and "a simple-minded peasant," but conceded that "not all members of the Algerian government were involved." In any case, boasted Bourguiba, "we have enough power and strength to face any adversary. I don't intend to keep up hypocritical relations with any government...