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...Khalil sternly refused to let the Russians stage an "atoms for peace" exhibition in Khartoum, arrested and questioned Sudanese students who attended last summer's Moscow Youth Festival. On another occasion he acidly reminded the Russians that they kept a 55-man staff in Khartoum, compared with the Sudan's three men in Moscow...
...annex the country, is meanwhile trying to force it into a Nasser-styled policy of neutrality. The Soviet Union, which recognizes that the Sudan is a gateway to the African continent, has tried its best blandishments. That neither has succeeded is largely due to tough-minded Premier Abdullah Khalil...
With the Egyptians Khalil maintains solid ties of friendship. Sudanese cultural ties with Egypt are close; many Sudanese were educated in Egyptian universities. But Khalil has labored mightily to remind his electorate (some of whom actually favor union with Egypt) that the Sudan did not achieve independence from Britain in order to become a dependent of Gamal Nasser. In the Khartoum Parliament, Khalil personally glowered down an attempt by the opposition to force him to break off diplomatic relations with Britain and France after they invaded Suez...
Cash for Cotton. Khalil's stand against Communist attempts at penetration have been forthright. His Umma Party espouses "positive neutrality," and Khalil sees that it is exactly that. When the Russians offered to take the Sudan's unsold cotton crop last year in exchange for arms, Khalil replied bluntly that what he wanted was agricultural machinery, not tanks. "We're not going to fight anybody," he said. "The cotton market is just a few hundred yards from the Soviet embassy. They can walk there and buy any time they want. And they can pay cash...
Though some of Khalil's critics recall the time he edited the speech of a rival politician by indicating with the muzzle of his pistol the lines to be deleted, he has slowly built up increasingly solid support for his policies. Nine months ago Khalil felt unable to sign up for U.S. aid when U.S. Special Ambassador James P. Richards offered it under the Eisenhower Doctrine. But last month he announced acceptance of U.S. technical aid under the U.S. Mutual Security Program. And the Sudan's cotton crop, which Khalil refused to mortgage to the Russians for arms...