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...three hours at U.N. headquarters in Manhattan, looking youthful and a little bewildered under glaring lights, stood Algerian Premier Ahmed ben Bella, 42, shaking hands with 1,500 guests. The reception marking Algeria's admission to the U.N. was a kind of diplomatic coming-out party for the man who had won control of his embattled country, and the U.S. last week got a chance to take a closer look at the man under the lights...
...President Osvaldo Dorticos, who next day denounced the U.S. in violent terms. In a mixture of Latin abrazo and the tradi tional French greeting, both men hugged and kissed each other. Linking the "kissing match" to Communism rather than to courtesy, the New York Mirror cried: "Ben Bella go home and kiss an Arab...
Unpresumptuous Try. Yet when Ben Bella strode to the rostrum...
...image by stressing that his trip to Cuba was not intended as a "commentary" on U.S. relations with Castro, and added: "On the other hand, without trying to be presumptuous, I hope to contribute something to the lessening of tension between the United States and Cuba." But Ben Bella's Foreign Minister later declared that any attempt to overthrow the regime "chosen" by the Cuban people would be a "threat to peace." In part, the Algerians insisted, their position is based on the fact that during the struggle with France, the U.S. supplied the French army with bombers, guns...
About 80% of those eligible to vote went to the polls, and of those voting, nearly 5,300,000, or 99%, supported the single list. It was a mandate of sorts for Ben Bella, enough for him to begin to govern, but no guarantee that he could abandon his wary habit of sleeping with a pistol handy on his bed table...