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Boumedienne did not spare Egypt's President Nasser, Ben Bella's close friend and ally. Some 200 Egyptians working on the Afro-Asian Conference site were rounded up after last week's bomb explosion in the meeting hall. Egypt's ambassador was hauled from his auto by police and grilled for two hours. In other Arab capitals, Boumedienne started recruiting teachers to replace the 2,000 pro-Nasser Egyptian instructors in Algerian schools. "At least," said one impressed diplomat, "he's digging the cockroaches out of the woodwork...
...sweltering reaches of the petroleous Persian Gulf, where Britain maintains some of the last outposts of Empire, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser has waged a long, hot campaign of intrigue and propaganda to get the "imperialists" out-and himself in. Last week the British inflicted two significant defeats on their...
...hardly seemed decorous to embrace the new man too hastily, so Russia did nothing. China, desperately wanting the conference as a sounding board for anti-U.S. and anti-Russian blasts, ran the risk of alienating Algerian leftists and recognized the new government. Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, while carefully pointing out that recognition was between states, not personalities, still withheld his blessing from the junta that had ousted his close friend and safest ally...
...Bella still alive? Nasser's chief aide, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, flew from Cairo to ask Boumedienne if he could see his old pal and "be assured of his safety." "Believe me," replied Boumedienne, "we would grant this request if Ben Bella were not in a place far from Algiers. But we guarantee his safety." When Amer then suggested that Ben Bella be exiled to Egypt, promising that he would not be allowed to plot a comeback, Boumedienne refused...
Ever since Heinrich Schliemann un covered the ruins of Agamemnon's court in Greece, Germans have been among the most relentless of antiquarians. It seemed only natural, therefore, for some adventurous German technicians working at Gamal Abdel Nasser's jet airplane factory outside Cairo to decide to drive 300 miles across the Libyan Desert to the remote Siwa Oasis, site of Roman temple ruins and the classical oracle of Jupiter Ammon, consulted by Alexander the Great. It was to be a week-long vacation. The group included Gunther Wanderscheck, Reinhold Rimm, and Hans Hauser, together with Cairo Salesman Klaus...