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Finding the Ford. Convinced that their hero had indeed been done in, eleven pro-Lumumba nations (Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Morocco, Libya, India, Indonesia, U.A.R., Ceylon, Russia and Yugoslavia) petitioned the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold for an immediate investigation. Moscow radio-which has reason to be expert in such matters-went on the air with a prediction that the whole escape story had been manufactured as a cover ("shot while escaping") to explain away the fact that Lumumba would be found dead. In Katanga, Moise Tshombe, busy in conferences with a visiting foreign dignitary, seemed totally unconcerned. "President Tshombe does...
...turboprop airliner cruised along in the early afternoon sunshine. Alone in the blue skies at 28,000 ft., it had aboard the Soviets' figurehead of state, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Leonid Brezhnev, 54, on his way to visit Guinea via a stopover in Morocco. At precisely 2:18 p.m. the Ilyushin got company...
...Rabat in his unscathed plane, Brezhnev found Moroccans in a mood to credit the Russian version of the incident. Tearfully, Moroccan Minister of Information Ahmed Alaoui recalled the French capture four years ago of a planeload of Algerian leaders on the way back to Tunis after a conference in Morocco. "Every time Morocco has guests, France refuses to respect the rules of good will," he complained...
...polite to his guests, yet keep diplomatic channels open with France; he must reconcile his personal pro-Western feelings with his role as a fighter for Moslem unity and North African independence. He has enemies on either side: Egypt's Nasser sneers that Bourguiba is a Western stooge; Morocco's King Mohammed V was enraged last fall when Bourguiba recognized the independence of Mauritania, which the King insists is Moroccan territory...
...F.L.N.'s flirtation with the Communists, who are eagerly pouring money and munitions into the Algerian war. It could also be a step toward Bourguiba's long-cherished but unlikely dream of a federation of the North African nations-Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Morocco-that would be a counterweight to Nasser's U.A.R...