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During last month's Rabat conference on North African unity, Morocco's handsome, personable King Hassan II wangled an informal invitation to visit Algeria from the charmed guests in the Algerian delegation. Fact was Algeria's Premier Ahmed ben Bella hit the roof when he heard the news, for he reserved the honor of the first official visit of a chief of state to Algeria since its independence for a real advocate of "socialist Arab nationalism," Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. For all Morocco's warm cooperation during the struggle with France, the high-living...
...selections range in importance from a brief, narrowly topical newspaper interview with Premier Ahmed Ben Bella of Algeria to a thoughtful critique of communism by President Leopold Senghon of Senegal. Geographically, they deal with Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Ideologically, they include positions from the communism of Mao Tse-tung to the political liberalism of Nnamdi Azikiwe, the Governor-General of Nigeria...
...beneath the bluster Ben Bella is more pragmatist than dogmatist, and Algeria's sorry state persuaded him to begin tacking with the Western wind. "He is determined to feed, clothe and employ his people," said one Western diplomat, "and he's going to kick over any 'isms' that...
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...
...Bella's biggest problem by far is the economy. This year, he said, will be one "of austerity, of convalescence." To show that he means business, he pushed through a skin-and-bones budget of $564 million, giving some ministries one-tenth of what they had demanded. He also put a $400-a-month ceiling on all government salaries-his own included-and slapped a 100% tax on income above $800 a month. To the ascetic Ben Bella, who lives in a dingy, three-room bachelor flat with a nephew who does all the cooking and cleaning, that seems...