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...tone was obvious as soon as Chou stepped off his chartered KLM Electra amidst a pelting hailstorm. Algerian Premier Ahmed Ben Bella usually gives important visitors an affectionate buss on both cheeks. Not this time. All Chou got was a simple handshake and a carefully prepared speech that extolled, of all things, the Russian propaganda line of peaceful coexistence. Just before the motorcade drove into town, a little truck raced madly ahead, pausing momentarily along the route while men frantically plastered posters of Chou on walls and billboards. Adding to the general atmosphere of carelessness were a few streamers covered...
Until the eve of negotiations, fighting continued. The affair threatened to build up into an East-West confrontation, as Cuba's Fidel Castro and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser rushed aid to Algeria's Socialist Strongman Ahmed ben Bella. Unloaded at night from a pair of Cuban freighters in the Algerian harbor of Oran were at least four crated MIG jet fighters, 800 tons of ammunition, three field radio stations and more than enough Soviet-made weapons-including tanks, field guns, antiaircraft guns-to arm an armored regiment. Cuban soldiers accompanied the hardware. Neighborly Nasser also sent...
...Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, host and mediator, tried to keep the Algerian and Moroccan delegations apart. The emissaries even ate in separate dining rooms, with Keita and Selassie shuttling back and forth. Finally, after one face-to-face meeting between Morocco's King Hassan II and Ben Bella, a compromise cease-fire agreement was reached-but it was full of loopholes and did not last long...
...Cuba and recalled its ambassadors to Egypt and Syria because of their "extremely hostile attitude." Some 350 Egyptian teachers in Morocco were told to pack up and return home. In Algiers the mood was equally ugly. Although both sides had agreed to end their exchange of virulent propaganda, Ben Bella warned Hassan in a two-hour harangue that the struggle would continue between his type of socialism, which he evidently hopes to extend to the whole North African area, and Morocco's monarchy...
That crowd was too big for Hassan, who proposed a cozier group to meet in Bamako, Mali, with President Keita, Emperor Haile Selassie and Ben Bella. Although Algeria finally agreed, neither side seemed particularly eager to settle the war, because the political benefits of patriotic fervor were considerable. Ben Bella was drafting all his unemployed into the army, and Hassan's own domestic opposition faded, at least temporarily, while crowds cheered him and kissed his hands...