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...Commandos have sent training missions to Saudi Arabia, Greece, Mali, Guatemala, Venezuela, Ecuador and El Salvador, helped the Dominican Republic set up its own Air Commando units. In a spirit of international camaraderie, Guatemala awarded the U.S. instructors its own Air Force wings at a graduation party, required the Air Commandos to down a bottle of local liquor to reach the wings at the bottom...
...neither lan guage nor ethnic origins in common. One by one, the former French colonies that backed Morocco's claims have all dropped out of the battle. Algeria's militant Ahmed Ben Bella allowed recently that Mauritania's nationhood is a "reality." Last week even neighboring Mali, which also claimed part of Mauritania and permitted pro-Moroccan guerrillas to raid the desert nation a year ago, finally buried the hatchet. With royalties beginning to flow into his treasury from big, Western-financed iron-ore mines, Ould Daddah cut off the $4,000,000 annual subsidy his government...
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...difference between nationalists appear sharply in the discussions of the single-party state based "on a populist identification of leader, party, and people." On the one hand, several writers defend one-party rule as necessary and democratic. Speaking in Paris in early 1960; Madeira Keita, Mali's radical Minister of Defense, argued that since the objectives of the African people are "common ones and we are in agreement on methods, we must create a single party. It is necessary to create a single party to be efficient...and not to give aid to colonialism...We must have the unified party...
...last week more than 50 of Mali's 250 most important foreign enterprises, mostly French, had pulled out. The trade deficit stood at $26 million and reserves had shrunk to a minuscule $5,000,000. In Paris the French listened with almost saintly patience to Mali's pleas for a massive bail-out loan; when all is said and done, France is expected to come across with the cash. As an exporter of peanuts and beef (its cattle are north of Africa's tsetse fly zone), self-sufficient in rice and other staples, Mali just might make...