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Trouble All Over. Occupying expensive apartments and frequenting nightclubs and bars, the rival Simbas began accusing one another of living it up on revolutionary funds. Attempts by Nasser to bring them together only drove them further apart. Rebel Defense Minister Gaston Soumialot announced that he had deposed Gbenye, who retorted angrily that he was undeposable. From his exile quarters in the Sudan, People's Army Commander Nicho'as Olenga renounced them both, claimed that he alone spoke for the revolution-until last month, when the Khartoum government charged that he had been conspiring with the Sudan...
...final disaster came this month, when three drunken Simbas began brawling in Cairo's residential Zamalek district. Before the battle ended, two of them had been shot dead. The surviving Simba resisted arrest on the grounds that "I am a general." That was too much for even Nasser, whose security police had been urging him for months to get rid of the troublesome Congolese. He ordered remaining Simbas rounded up, then packed them aboard a government airliner and shipped them out of Egypt. When last seen, they were headed for Kigoma, the Tanzanian railhead on Lake Tanganyika...
...Meeting in Casablanca, but only twelve showed up. The absentee was Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, who sent his regrets in the form of a 10,000-word memo randum intended to torpedo, if not the whole affair, at least its main personality, Egypt's Abdel Gamal Nasser...
Bourguiba has made no secret of his unhappiness with Nasser's efforts at singlehanded domination not only of the League but of most other Arab matters as well. But never before had he been so brutally frank; when shocked delegates gathered at the Prefecture on Casablanca's United Nations Plaza read the memorandum, they refused to publish it. That didn't stop Bourguiba. He happily handed it out to the press back home in Tunis...
What still bothered Bourguiba was Nasser's high-handed use of the Arab League to support his decision last spring to break diplomatic relations with West Germany. Under Nasser's leadership, Bourguiba acidly continued, "the Arabs have never been more divided; never have they slaughtered each other more ferociously than since the day Egypt took it upon itself to unite them." Warming up, he added, "There is not in the Arab world one single regime that Cairo has not attempted to overthrow whenever [that regime] showed signs of insubordination or refused to remain in the Egyptian orbit...