Word: algerias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flurry of indignation, 18 African states, plus Cambodia, Indonesia, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia, had called on the Council to condemn Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe and his Western allies for last month's U.S.-Belgian rescue operations at Stanleyville. Tshombe's representatives countered by charging that Algeria, Ghana, Egypt and the Sudan were aiding the rebel "government" of Christophe Gbenye...
Rebel Airlift. Last week into Khartoum, capital of the Sudan, winged planeload after planeload of arms and ammunition bound for the Congo from Ghana, Algeria and Egypt. Secrecy hung thick as a cloud of Sudanese flies around the British-built Comets and Russian turboprop AN-12s as they transshipped their cargoes to smaller aircraft. Although the Sudanese government cynically claimed that the tarpaulin-covered crates carried nothing more dangerous than "medical supplies," they must have been the world's heaviest bandages...
...destiny seemed to be taking a turn scarcely envisioned by De Gaulle. To his sequestered Elysee Palace in Paris, he summoned a coterie of advisers to help him figure out the next move in the sticky negotiations that France has been holding for a year with her former foe, Algeria. Subject of the negotiations: the perilous future of French oil concessions in the Sahara...
Courting Both Sides. French companies, mostly government-owned, have invested $1.8 billion in Algerian oil, and France takes two-thirds of Algeria's 184-million-barrel-a-year output. Last year this not only met 37% of France's oil needs in dollar-saving francs but poured $60 million into the treasury of Algerian President Ahmed ben Bella...
...content with that (plus some $221 million of outright French aid), Ben Bella is demanding half ownership of the oil industry, which now gives him 50% of the profits, so that he can industrialize poverty-stricken Algeria. French negotiators seem willing to give in to demands for joint management of new oil ventures, but want to hold out for the profitable status quo on existing operations. So far, Ben Bella has shied away from talk of outright nationalization, but Algerian oil workers are ominously pressuring producers for control over hiring, firing and promotions...