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Instant Power. Last December, when Nasser traveled to Khartoum and Tripoli to promote the three-way federation, he was met by frantic crowds screaming: "One people, one people, one people!" Until his death, Nasser met regularly with Sudanese Leader Jaafar Numeiry and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. At last week's meeting, Numeiry, Gaddafi and Nasser's successor, Anwar Sadat, produced a communiqué pledging to seek eventual political federation. To this end, they set up a "Tripartite Political Command...
...military advisers are assigned to the armed forces at every level of command from artillery crews at the Suez Canal to naval vessels in the Red Sea. "Today the Soviets are in on every decision." an observer commented recently. President Nasser himself boasted in Khartoum last month that "Soviets are serving with our units everywhere." At least a dozen Russian advisers have died in Israeli attacks. The major new elements of the Soviet presence...
...first, the Russians and their Arab allies denied reports of an expanded Soviet presence. Now, that presence is far too visible to be denied. Speaking last week in Khartoum, capital of the Sudan, Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser declared that Soviet technicians are serving with Egyptian forces "everywhere." Said he: "This, dear brothers, is how we have been able to stand fast and face Israel. This is how, dear brothers, we have been able to rebuild the strong army that stands at the front today...
...meaning of that statement was entirely clear to Sudanese Strongman Major General Jaafar Nemery, who, celebrating the first anniversary of the coup that brought him to power in Khartoum, had asked Nasser to join the festivities. Nemery has admitted 1,000 Soviet military advisers and economic technicians to Sudan. Several are training his pilots to fly MIG-21s. East Germany, meanwhile, provides advisers for Nemery's increasingly elaborate internal-security program...
Garros' sector, just south of the Sahara, is occupied by descendants of the same Moslem fanatics who killed General Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon in Khartoum 85 years ago. A Sudan-based outfit called the Chad National Liberation Front (FROLINAT) claims credit for the current insurrection. French-educated François Tombalbaye, the only President this ten-year-old country has ever had, dismisses the insurgency as mere banditry. In fact, it has racial and religious overtones. Moslem emirates in the north ruled Chad before the French conquest, and the black, predominantly Christian Sara tribesmen in the south were their...