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...Cairo, some 200 African and Egyptian students descended on the U.S. embassy and burned down the adjacent, $250,000 John F. Kennedy Memorial Library. Ahmed ben Bella, shaky ruler of a bankrupt Algeria, many of whose people survive only because of U.S. food gifts, pledged "arms and volunteers" to the Congo rebels. So did Red China...
...billion in Algerian oil, and France takes two-thirds of Algeria's 184-million-barrel-a-year output. Last year this not only met 37% of France's oil needs in dollar-saving francs but poured $60 million into the treasury of Algerian President Ahmed ben Bella...
When Mohammed Khider, the treasurer of Algeria's ruling National Liberation Front party, quarreled with Strongman Ahmed ben Bella and absconded with some $12 million in party funds earlier this year, the Algerian government naturally turned to the Swiss banks for clues. Algerian agents went to work, soon became convinced that they had traced the missing money to four numbered accounts in Geneva's Arab Commercial Bank, which is incorporated and operating under Swiss banking laws. Algiers asked the Geneva authorities to take it from there. When Arab Bank Director Zouheir Mardam refused to disclose the identity...
Whether Mardam will actually collect his damage award, or Ben Bella the lost money, is doubtful. But the banker's release pleased the Swiss banking community. After all, if the impression got around that the legendary Swiss sock was developing holes, the new and old rich might be tempted to start taking their loot elsewhere...
...enemy of topical TV farce, Bousgarbiès even suggested "a better subject"-a TV race between Charles de Gaulle and Ben Bella, both in shorts and "bicycling madly in the Algerian velodrome, with Ben Bella winning." As for historical hilarity, Bousgarbiès said he could even stomach a current Paris revue that portrays Joan of Arc hearing those voices and then yanking a transistor radio out of her bodice. But tax-paid satire of Napoleon? "Scandalous," bristled the aged avocat. "I would be just as upset to see Joan of Arc doing a striptease or Clemenceau wrestling...