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...Begging Bowls. As an administrator, Khalil is among Africa's best. His budgets are balanced, and any surplus has been applied to development projects. Visiting Western moneymen have been impressed by Khalil's insistence on a pay-as-you-go approach to loans, his refusal to ask for more aid than the nation can repay. "The Sudanese," said one admiring U.S. official, "are not holding out any begging bowls...
Prison School. Ranged next month against Khalil and the Umma Party will be a conglomeration of rival political and religious factions, chief of which is the National Unionist Party headed by short, shrewd Sayed Ismail el Azhari, an ex-schoolteacher and longtime nationalist whom the British once jailed ("In a backward country, prison is the politician's university, and I graduated," he says). El Azhari, who is an alumnus of the American University of Beirut, was financed largely with Egyptian money in the Sudan's last elections four years ago, is campaigning for "closer ties" with Egypt...
...real battleground may be the south, because Khalil's Umma and El Azhari's N.U.P. are thought to be almost equally balanced in the north. Who will win in the south is anybody's guess. In the last elections in 1953, many southern tribesmen arrived at the polls under the impression that the government was going to give them a big party. A few arrived drunk on dura (millet) beer, and at one polling station a naked tribesman appeared smeared from head to foot with white wood ash. Asked why, he replied with simple dignity...
Holding the Egyptians at arm's length, fending off the Russians, battling his political opponents, Abdullah Khalil is already under attack for seeking U.S. aid for future development. Intent on irrigation pumps and not guns, Khalil takes little pains to conceal his impatience with other Middle East leaders who have accepted highly publicized Soviet arms deals that leave their basic problems unchanged. "They need money," he says. "They can't live on MIGs...
...promising new nations born since World War II, Khalil's Sudan seems to have a better chance than most of making its own way on its own terms...