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...long ago, the West was ready to write off Algeria's brash, sloganeering Premier Ahmed ben Bella as a Mediterranean Castro ripe for Red domination. But times do change. After seven months of independence, Ben Bella now relies on a tide of aid 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...
...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...
...fill it up again, Ben Bella needs Western help. At first, embittered by his 5½ years in French prisons, he blinkered himself to that fact. He threatened to turn all remaining French-owned lands into state-run farms. He sauntered off to Havana to embrace Fidel Castro-right after a meeting with President Kennedy. He accepted what little Red aid he got with great fanfare, but deliberately played down far more extensive help from the West-including a flood of food shipments from private U.S. charities that have kept nearly half of his 10 million people from starving...
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...
Hassan tries hard not to become too closely identified with the West. During the Algerian war, he played the role of mediator between the F.L.N. and Charles de Gaulle; when Algeria finally became free, Rabat crowds led by Hassan gave a hero's welcome to Ahmed ben Bella and other rebel leaders on their way home from French prisons. Since then. Hassan has kept a watchful eye on developments in neighboring Algeria. Aware of the danger of a violent chain reaction of turmoil along the Mediterranean, he remains friendly to Algeria's new regime, believes that the best...