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...Stanleyville two months ago, the rebels have become the delighted recipients of a mountain of military equipment, smuggled in at great expense by their friends in Peking, Moscow, and the radical African bloc. "Yes, we're aiding the Congolese insurgents," admitted Algeria's President Ahmed ben Bella last week. "We are doing our duty toward the Congo and Africa...
...aboard Russian-built AN-12 turboprop transports from Algeria and Cairo to Khartoum airport for transshipment to the southern Sudanese town of Juba aboard smaller aircraft. Most of the turboprops bear Algerian markings but are flown by Russian pilots. The large part of the equipment was supplied by Ben Bella and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, but Russia apparently has promised to replace all weapons they send to the Simbas...
Though reluctant to abandon his opulent villa near Madrid, Peron is expected to leave Spain as a matter of pride. Where will he go? Peronistas have suggested Switzerland, where he stashed some of his looted millions. Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, Algeria's Ben Bella, and Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba have sent him invitations, and Castro is cooing...
...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...
Meanwhile, Ben Bella has been courting both Western and Communist oilmen to reduce his dependence on France. Soviet experts are training 650 Algerians as oil technicians at a school near Algiers, and a U.S.-British-French combine has just opened a $64 million plant at coastal Arzew to freeze natural gas and ship it to fuel-shy Britain in insulated tankers. Italy's giant ENI plans to build a refinery at Arzew on a fifty-fifty basis with Ben Bella...