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...superstitious Algerian peasant was convinced that the Egyptian visitor had brought a hex with him. But there was a more concrete reason for the disappointment Nasser took with him last week when he pulled up anchor and sailed away three days earlier than planned. From host Ahmed ben Bella, Algeria's young Premier, Nasser had gotten hearty cordiality and words of acclaim, but no real promise to bring Algeria into Nasser's scheme for a United Arab Republic. Cordial & Cool. As the only two socialist rulers in the Arab world, they had much in common. And Ben Bella...
...bank reports. So strict a Moslem is he that he prays toward Mecca five times a day, allows none of his employees to drink, smoke or eat pork in his presence. Unimpressed by pomp, he treats peddlers, peasants and princes alike. He knows almost every Arab ruler from Ben Bella to King Saud, royally says of Jordan's King Hussein: "He is like one of my sons, but I tell him when he is wrong...
Algeria's Premier Ahmed ben Bella cabled that this was "the most wonderful day of my life!" and Yemen's strongman. Abdullah Sallal. hailed the "outstanding historic event." Cheering crowds milled through Aden and Kuwait and Baghdad...
...along that there is no historical basis for union, and that the two countries have neither lan guage nor ethnic origins in common. One by one, the former French colonies that backed Morocco's claims have all dropped out of the battle. Algeria's militant Ahmed Ben Bella allowed recently that Mauritania's nationhood is a "reality." Last week even neighboring Mali, which also claimed part of Mauritania and permitted pro-Moroccan guerrillas to raid the desert nation a year ago, finally buried the hatchet. With royalties beginning to flow into his treasury from big, Western-financed...
Even on the playing fields, Hassan's visit was a bust; his Moroccan army soccer team was only able to manage a tie with the Algerian squad. Next day, Hassan presented Ben Bella with a gift of a house trailer; all the guest got was a bill for staging the game-stadium rental, bus rental, and the cost of printing the programs. And when it came time to settle the hotel bill, Hassan's hosts pointedly looked the other way; by prior agreement, Hassan footed the bill for his entire no-man entourage...