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...power without Boumedienne's unwavering support, Ben Bella in recent months had decided to get rid of the army men in his Cabinet. One reason may have been Ben Bella's anger at the army's point-blank refusal to send "liberation" troops to the Congo, Portuguese Guinea and Israel-as proposed by the President. In any event, the first officer to be ousted, he decided, would be Foreign Minister Abdel Aziz Bouteflika, a former F.L.N. commissar under Boumedienne and a close friend of the army commander. Then, after his hoped-for personal triumph at the Afro...
...examination of the U.N.'s five major crises - Iran, Suez, Korea, Cuba and the Congo - including interviews with Trygve Lie, U Thant, Adlai Stevenson, Henry Cabot Lodge and others...
...realizing security and stability, and pressing forward with the revival of democracy after six years of military oppression." Mahgoub saw no "insuperable blockades" to good relations with neighboring Egypt and hinted that the Sudan will no longer serve as a transit route for arms shipments either to the Congo rebels or to the Eritrean insurgents who are battling the Ethiopian regime of Emperor Haile Selassie...
Faas was born in Berlin in 1933, worked in a darkroom for a photo agency, joined the A.P. in 1955. He shot much of the fighting in the Congo...
Often he bribed Congolese soldiers with Polaroid snapshots-a practice that enabled him to be in the right place to take the last picture of Patrice Lumumba as he was bundled from a plane to the truck that would carry him to his execution. From the Congo, Faas went to Algeria, where he snapped a number of O.A.S. murders daily and risked inviting his own. When a picture he took of one O.A.S. murder made the papers, a man stopped him in the street, invited him into a cafe for an absinthe, then pulled a pistol...